Toby had worked as a dental hygienist when they lived in Israel. In my second year of graduate school I used to go out with a girl who was studying that at Forsyth in Boston — it’s either part of Northeastern University or next door to it. Jane had an apartment off Beacon Street in Brookline, a couple of blocks from Coolidge Corner, with her sisters Lauren and Ellen. I can never hear the Beatles’ song “Lovely Rita Meter Maid” without thinking of her, nor vice-versa:
Got the bill and Rita paid it
Took her home I nearly made it
Sitting on the sofa with a sister or two