OpinionDavid Brooks

OpinionDavid Brooks

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By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

When I was 17, I fell madly in love. We’d been casual friends for a few years, but on May 5, 1979, while we were hanging around a campfire with some other high school seniors, she slipped her hand into mine, and that was my first taste of pure bliss. I treasured being a camp counselor, but that summer I stayed home from camp and worked as a janitor in a movie theater so I could go........

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