I've had a couple of rabbis who were good role models, and an uncle. But in all probability, the guy who ended up having a disproportionately deep influence on my life was my high school English teacher, a guy named Barry Smolin. Among other things, it's because of him that I am a teacher today.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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