The scene was Annapolis, Maryland, in a Catholic high school freshman english class, sometime around 1986. As the teacher went around the room calling roll call on the first day of class, we were supposed to answer with our preferred nickname, if we had one.
TEACHER: James [start trying to pronounce my last name]
ME: I go by Jimmy.
TEACHER: Boys are named Jimmy, men are named Jim.
ME: Jim it is!
And that is how I became a man.
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