I couldn't fathom how a young kid could get on a train by himself, make a side trip to NYC and get a hotel room on his own, smoke cigarettes all day, chat up a teenage hooker, chat up some nuns about Romeo and Juliet while being unsupervised. My parents wouldn't let me walk to school by myself.
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I couldn't fathom how a young kid could get on a train by himself, make a side trip to NYC and get a hotel room on his own, smoke cigarettes all day, chat up a teenage hooker, chat up some nuns about Romeo and Juliet while being unsupervised. My parents wouldn't let me walk to school by myself.