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ANOTHER MEMORY OF MY FATHER

And His High School Buddy Sid

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Richard Kostelanetz
Sep 19, 2025
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My father made his life-long friends at Townsend Harris High School in the mid-1920s, when it was still exclusively for boys (and then only the brightest). Among them was Sid, who had incidentally been his successor as captain of the high school soccer team.

So, when Sid became a dentist a decade later, he invited his high school buddy to be a patient at…

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