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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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