I don't know how much time she has left. But I know how we will spend it: Together

“Hi, how y'all doing?”

That’s how it started back in 1961 at Fulton Junior High School in Van Nuys. It was the start of the fall semester and I was a new student recently arrived from Dallas. She was in the ninth grade, the homeroom secretary.

I had been walked to homeroom by the front office staff...