Hm. Identifying linchpins in my life is hard. Going to Swarthmore is the big one, but since both my parents went there, a lot of paths lead to it. The most obvious one that doesn't would be me not getting in, but I don't know of any single event that would result in that; the admissions office's ways are inscrutable (and, by doctrine, infallible, at least with positive decisions).

Besides that, there was one important missed (last) train, and later a very poor decision on my part, which change a lot of things. Also, a plea for housing assistance; an endorsement of a local house dance; a spur-of-the-moment trip to New York and a spill of bleach in the trunk of a car.

But then there are all the linchpins in other people's lives that brought them into mine, though I wasn't there at the time. Yours I know; many others I don't.

I haven't played Chrononauts in a while. I should fix that.