life

Seeking eternal life, he learns the secret of 72 Transformations from a venerated Buddhist teacher and then becomes an irreverent show-off.

A native of Pennsylvania, he’ll also have to establish roots in new territory after having spent his entire life on the East Coast.

“What do you mean, what are my plans? Once I get through this, I’m going to stop taking the Lexapro and get back to my life.”

So many of my dad’s stories about his youth were set at Carville that I’d been imagining it for my entire life, but he never said much about his time in the infirmary.

He is 35 and lives in St. Louis, so it’s not like we live in an expensive city.