I can pinpoint the year when English became the subject I wanted to teach. 1970 found me in a classroom where poetry made sense, Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” captivated me, and Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was ridiculously non-relatable. (Teenage love should never end with poison and a dagger in a burial vault).
History was added to the undergrad degr...
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