In Athens, most students are related to several of their teachers, one of the 4,724 reasons I want to leave this town.

Our first evening in Chicago flies by. I enjoy meeting Taylor’s husband and two pre-teen daughters. Their apartment is a huge, two-floor home. Alma and I stay in a guest room on the lower level with the girls’ rooms next door.

Taylor’s daughters ask if they can ‘do it now’. I can’t wait to see what the ‘it’ is they have for Alma. They jog into ...