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Back in 2003, a nervous kid from Far Rockaway, Queens, showed up to DePauw University two weeks before anyone else, already homesick, wondering what he’d gotten himself into.
When move-in day finally came and the rest of the freshman class arrived, he looked up and saw a woman moving into the dorms with her family.
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