1974 or 1975 (will look this up and correct):
Graduate NU with MA in learning disabilities and a teaching certificate in special ed, K-12.. Start teaching special ed class in North Chicago school in January. Very hard, I feel like I can't do it. Get call from SF, they're shipping Mama back to me, noone out there can do anything with her. She arrives just as I am starting the new job. She complains every day that I leave her alone all day; we install her in the 'apartment' at 1201. A few months later, I stand against the blackboard in my classroom and know that something's very wrong. I'm no longer eating much--another clue. Go to the doc, I've got a bleeding duodenal ulcer, he hospitalizes me, Condell, forbids calls from my mother, I call her to say I'll be home soon, she says I can't take care of her and everyone else, including Ed, and that she's going home to SF. I also call Special Ed of Lake County and tell them that I'm in the hospital with an ulcer and quit. Bud and Emma have moved out and are living in an apartment at the end of Winchester Road.
1973-77, about:
Attend North Shore Unitarian, get involved with encounter group there which develops into 'The Group.' I go on to get teaching job in l.d. at two public elementary schools in Libville, Rockland and Butterfield. The marriage is in trouble, Ed is b y now working for Argonne Natl Labs.
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