Reminiscing Glassboro State College
by Jay Dubya
The lucky thirteen-mile April 1, 2004 drive from Hammonton to Glassboro, New
Jersey was pleasant and almost inspirational. As my merlot-colored Nissan Maxima
passed through downtown Williamstown and onto Route 322, I pondered the four
years I had spent at Glassboro State College preparing to become an idealistic
New Jersey public school teacher, a career which I had diligently pursued for
thirty-four years until my very happy retirement in June of 1999.
But many important fragments of my past have been erased by circumstances beyond
my control, further adding to my general quandary that often hypothesizes
whether those four incredible years between ages nineteen and twenty-three had
really occurred or not, for my entire life has been dangerously lived "on the
cusp." Let me explain the basis for my current rumination.
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