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...he got a free ride (pretty much) elsewhere at a private school, where he thrived, although Binghamton made a decent offer, unlike Rutgers. At Rutgers, engineering is nowhere near as important as football. (They pissed me off with that stuff; it wasn't really my call, but I was offended by the offer.)

I didn't know that SUNY Binghamton had another name before it went into the SUNY system.

To be perfectly honest, I was never a huge Hot Tuna fan, and if I'd bought tickets for that show, it would have been to see Bromberg.

I grew up on Long Island, but left, pretty much for good about 40 years ago. I had a huge family there, so many cousins that I can't say I'd know all their names or faces, but most of them are gone from Long Island now; many of them are dead.

My stepmother's family is there, but I don't get out to see them that much anymore. She's a centenarian now, I should go one last time.

I have a fairly wealthy cousin who has a summer home in Nissequogue, to which he sometimes invites us. I haven't heard from him for a few years though.

My wife is from Staten Island; it's rather amazing that someone quite so beautiful as she could have emerged from a place that was mostly known for being a garbage dump, but that actually happened.

We left for California to get married, and lived there for a number of years before discovering that New Jersey is actually nirvana, the suckiness of Rutgers notwithstanding.