I graduated from high school in 1968 and worked full-time as a bookkeeper for a boot factory in New Hampshire. I didn’t make much money there and had little or no interest in the job or the factory. I was dating a man who was clearly not my intellectual equal, but he was the best I could find in small-town New Hampshire. As always, I read many books and dreamed of a different life. How would I find that life? I had no money and played around so much in high school that my GPA was considerably below the level needed for college.