Back when I was a kid, I lived an hour north of New York City in the country. It wasn't my choice. My parents moved there from Manhattan in 1969 for the space and the public schools. As artists, they couldn't afford a private-school tuition in New York for me or my brother, and the public schools there were coming apart.
But living in what was then a rur…
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