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just uneducated.”
The boys still slept at their homes, though they spent after-school hours, most weekends and summer nights at the penthouse. There, a half-hour reading period before video games or television started. The kitchen timer was set, and everyone had to
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the words they didn’t know. One summer, Michael took all the boys to the library; each got a card and picked a
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to study. Will, Michael remembers, chose bodybuilding. A poet friend of the Rosens’ suggested buying copies of Moby Dick and reading it together around the dining-room table. “Well, it was
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,” admits Michael. “That book is not written in a language these kids speak. But we kept pushing and pushing.”
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the big boys became a complete part of the Rosen household, even helping to light the candles at Hanukkah. Chores were assigned, including cleaning and
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Mr. Jenkins, the family dog.
The boys’ own families were
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by what was happening. “My mom didn’t believe me when I told her about the penthouse. She thought I was involved with something
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.” Juan Carlos’s mother, Esther Ruiz, wondered, “Why would the Rosens be doing this?” But as time went on, she noticed
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