In Athens, most students are related to several of their teachers, one of the 4,724 reasons I want to leave this town.
Our first evening in Chicago flies by. I enjoy meeting Taylor's husband and two pre-teen daughters. Their apartment is a huge, two-floor home. Alma and I stay in a guest room on the lower level with the girls' rooms next door.
Taylor's daughters ask if they can 'do it now'. I can't wait to see what the 'it' is they have for Alma. They jog into the kitchen and return with an envelope for Alma and one for me. We are urged to open them at the same time. As we pull the ticket from inside, they shout “Surprise!" in unison while hopping up and down.
I can't believe my eyes. In my hand, I hold a ticket to Sunday's Chicago Cubs game versus the Brewers. It's a ticket to Hamil
