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I spent five years abroad in the 1960s, beginning with a college junior year study in France, and including a year of teaching English in Italy, then of teaching both French and English in the Peace Corps (Nigeria, then Tunisia, then teaching for the Ford Foundation at the University of Algiers for a year). After getting married in 1969, I spent five years in graduate school at the University of Rochester, and since the mid-1970s have been a professor of English at the University of Richmond. My wife and I have two grown children, one male and the other female. No grandchildren yet. I'll probably retire in two years, but since I've never had serious hobbies (other than travel which I love), I worry that I won't adjust well to being deprived of the daily structure and the sense of purposefulness that a job affords.