Harvey Silverglate

When he retired, I was gonna inherit the practice.

This scenario was concocted by Carolyn's mother and my mother.

In my sophomore year at Princeton, I won a fellowship to spend that summer between my sophomore and junior year in Paris.

I was fluent by then.

I had taken an accelerated French course my freshman and sophomore year.

And I went to Paris.

It was my first time out of the country.

And...

I spent the entire summer working, supporting myself.

The airfare and I earned money for room and board.

And I thought about my life, and I decided, number one, I didn't want to be a physician.

I wanted to be a lawyer.

Number two, I didn't want to marry Carolyn.

And I came back.

I changed from pre-med to pre-law.

I broke up with Carolyn, who was by that time at the school at Douglas, right down the road from Princeton.

She had followed me, or I had followed her.

And my life suddenly took a wholly different turn.

So that summer in Paris, Paris had an outsized effect on my life.

Every year, the Brown Theater shows Casablanca, where Bogart has this great line, he says, we'll always have Paris.