An email circulated to my program about an informal conversation with a singer-songwriter. The name was not disclosed to us. Thus I had to decide if this anonymous artist was worth missing 2 hours of class time, equivalent to $1,000 of tuition. It was a gamble. It could have been someone as unworthy of my time and money as Katy Perry, or someone as legendary as Neil Diamond.
Turns out, it was good ol' Neil. And so a small group of us sat nervously in a room with the folksy legend as he spoke about his life and advised us on ours. He is an endearingly grumpy old man. I shook his hand. He patted me on the shoulder.
I have now received a hug from Bono and a pat from Neil Diamond. Life is nearly complete.
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