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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gilman[/quote]

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and had never heard of any private school anywhere.  Teen Magazine did a spread on Gilman sometime in the mid 80s and it had all these preppy, clean-cut boys in the pictures.  Something about it stuck with me as a quintessential example of everything I was not and did not know.  I ended up, miraculously, at an Ivy and met kids from all the big private schools, although was friends with none of them because they did not hang out with a kid like me.  That was when I heard of Sidwell and St.Albans.  I can’t really remember other DC schools, can remember kids from most of the  East Coast boarding schools and the NY and CA privates.

I ended up meeting and falling in love with a guy (who has been my husband now for 20 years) at college who went to a fancy NY suburban public school but who came from an old Baltimore family.  His cousins all went to Gilman.  To this day, I think about that Teen Magazine article when I am around the men in his family.  I have known them for decades, but a little part of me is still that girl from nowhere who is impressed by the ease with which they navigate the world.  [/quote]

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