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  • What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
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    What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

    I remember a song we used to sing in kindergarten at Porter Elementary School in 1975. I was in the afternoon class, and every so often Mrs. Rapp would gather a gaggle of us five-year-olds around this lime-green, slightly out-of-tune upright piano. We’d just finished our vanilla wafer cookies and half-pint cartons of milk and…