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the High School Years

Feb 6, 2021Robin Engel1972, commons, Dostoyevsky, high school, North Massapequa, suburbia, teenager, the New School

Moving from Brooklyn to North Massapequa on Long Island, New York, I was the new kid on the block. The only friends I made were a set of twins who had also recently moved from the city to suburbia and together, we lamented. We hated it. I couldn’t sleep, it was so darned quiet. I…

Harsh Reality: Teenage Years

Jan 23, 2021Robin EngelBrooklyn, first kiss, Greenwich Village, junior high, Martin Luther King, protests, teenager

I still lived in Brooklyn. The year was 1969 and racial tensions were high. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. had been killed only a year previous. One day, outside the windows of my school, students from the high school walked out of school and marched in the streets, almost creating a riot, demanding equality…

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the High School Years

Harsh Reality: Teenage Years