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Old Days—Chicago

We were the Joycitones. We were the elite of the sixth-grade chorus at Joyce Road Elementary School.

Our leader was Ms. Dwyer, a taciturn former Rockette.

I was an alto, and part of the all-county chorus that year.

This was before puberty, cigarettes, and cheap black beauties worked their ravage on my voice.

Old Days was our showstopper...