A Hero of My Youth. The Nation magazine asked its readers to write brief essays of 200 words about the sports hero of their youth. I was 11 the day Ernie Davis died, and I cried. My friends thought I was weird. Who, in the white, jock South of the early 1960s, could possibly care about a black running back from Syracuse University in a faraway land called upstate New York? Ernie received the Heisman Trophy in 1.

Traffic roars along the back side of the house as I sit here and write this. But it was nice eating lunch yesterday sitting in the front on such a lovely day. What the office looks like on moving day.

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