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When I was 21, I spent the summer driving around the United States with my boyfriend. It amazes me, looking back, that I let myself go on that eight-week trip.

- ANN NAPOLITANO

When I was 21, I spent the summer driving around the United States with my boyfriend. It amazes me, looking back, that I let myself go on that eight-week trip. At the end of my junior year of college, I'd caught a virus I'd never heard of—Epstein-Barr—and had been sick ever since. I'd failed to graduate from college and watched my boyfriend and friends receive their diplomas from a seat in the audience.