The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life Semeia Published: 04/19/1999

Published: 04/19/1999

part revolutionary manifesto

After graduating from the University of Michigan

for more than twenty-five years

Maybe we've been asking the wrong people

The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life Semeia Published: 04/19/1999It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright,