I went to college to major in writing and I went there with a special scholarship provided for me for that purpose because of some writing awards that I won in high school. And so off I went to Brown where I was a good student and I loved college and I was in this special program for writing. And I loved that, but by golly, this was the ‘50’s and I had a boyfriend. This was the aforementioned football player, who was two years ahead of me at Brown. And he graduated and he wanted to get married and so I dropped out and got married, which interrupted that college career. I had four children before I was 26. When my children went to school, when the last one entered kindergarten, so by now I was in my late 20’s probably, I went back to college. It took me four years to complete the two that I still owed and then I went to graduate school. But it was an interrupted college career — probably actually a good thing because I was young when I went to college. I had just turned 17 and I was immature as proven by rushing off to get married. That’s an immature thing to do. So when I went back and was by then grown, I took it all more seriously. I studied harder, I learned more, I cared more. So I guess in a way I don’t regret having interrupted my education, though I would not advise young people to do it.
