About a month later, we took a family trip down to Miami to see my wife’s parents, and my wife and I slept in the room where she grew up. Among the other keepsakes and collectibles (Pee-Wee Herman...

About a month later, we took a family trip down to Miami to see my wife’s parents, and my wife and I slept in the room where she grew up. Among the other keepsakes and collectibles (Pee-Wee Herman dolls, old Rolling Stone magazines), there was an encyclopedia. I had owned the same encyclopedia, and I paged through it with a mix of nostalgia and boredom.