The Washington Post, March 22nd, 1999
In this age as in all others there are many things it is exceedingly difficult to be, but surely nothing is harder than to be an old-fashioned boy; no doubt it is equally hard to be an old- fashioned girl. Ours is an hour in which With It is the only It worth being; those who are, as I am, most decidedly Without It are left to trail many lengths behind the caboose of fashion's train, barely able to hear the locomotive's trendy whistle. There are, as the few remaining old-fashioned boys and girls well know, innumerable ways to confront this unhappy truth. But they all came together for me one d...
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