What was it like growing up as Jimmy? Was Jimmy a wild teenager?
“When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. We had very strict rules. It was a public school, but you couldn’t let your hair touch the collar of your shirt and you weren’t allowed to wear jeans – much unlike the schools are today where I don’t know what the standards are. On the other hand, we had I don’t know how many National Merit Scholarships and people went to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, and Georgetown from our school – so you do the math. We had a rather strict school and we had people of enormous success and achievement.” So did people have fewer choices back then? “I think people always have choices, it’s just whether they choose to make them or not. Everyone thinks that choices are handed out by some big divine intervention, but they’re not. We make choices every day of our lives, no matter what you do, at any age. People talk about decisions that are made, our parents were at war
