In the fall of 1988, I believed life could be normal again. I hoped to find a doctor who’d discover what was wrong with me and then I would to life full bore.
I took three classes in my first semester at UCLA — Calculus, European Economic History and Japanese.
I met Arnold Strong in my Japanese language lab. It was our first semester in the language.
Japan was all the rage in the late ’80s. According to Paul Kennedy’s classic book, it was poised to become the world’s superpower.
We were only supposed to talk Japanese in our language lab but none of were proficient, so we kept lapsing into Spanish.
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube.
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