It was a year of firsts. I’m not mentioning the date except to say it was a very long time ago. JFK was campaigning for the presidency. I had graduated from college, gotten married a few months later and my husband and I were living in our first apartment during my first year of teaching. That was the yearI bought and cooked my first turkey.

We couldn’t make it home for the Thanksgiving holiday. My husband worked six days a week and could not get time off.