Ghost of a Chance by Peter Duchin & Charles Michener

Author:Peter Duchin & Charles Michener
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

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I had enrolled in the School of Life but had somehow not found the time to enroll at the Sorbonne. Several weeks past the deadline for registration, I received a rocket from Chiquita, who had gotten a letter from the director of the Junior Year Abroad program—one Monsieur Rideout—which she had enclosed. M. Rideout began: “To say that Peter has been a disappointment to me is making an understatement.”

From there, M. Rideout proceeded to charge me with “acting independently” and an “inability to set [my] sights on a single goal.”

Moreover, M. Rideout was “very much concerned” that I might “continue to be a lone wolf and perhaps a waster of time.” He conceded that I seemed “a young man of considerable intelligence and native ability.” What was wrong was my “frame of mind.” Apparently I was, he wrote, in “rebellion against Yale and everything else that attempts to dictate his life to him.”

All true.

A few days later, I got another rocket, this one from my guardian Donald Stralem in New York. Donald was furious that I had bought the barge without his permission, and he was not happy about sending me the money to pay back my friends. “As far as I can make out,” he wrote, “all you have succeeded in doing is being an utterly foolish juvenile.”

Not quite all true.

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