He looks exactly like my dog, although smaller. My dog is 3 parts black lab and one part pit bull.

I had a remarkably similar post-Prom experience, except I was in the Boston area so we went "down the Cape", and one of my drunken roommates peed in the closet, all over my exceptionally tasteful rented 100% polyesther white-tie-and-tails costume, which I had cavalierly thrown on the floor, the quicker to change into…

I'm a Robert (named after my uncle) and there were a couple of others in my school growing up, but I haven't ever met a Robert who today is or would be under the age of 40. I really like the name, and the nickname is the best (Bob, quick and easy, and it's a palindrome!) I don't know why it fell out of favor.

It's a Hebrew name that's been around for a while (maybe centuries, for all I know.) I knew an Isreali woman named Aviva who would now be in her late 20s. Also, and I'm kind of horrified that I know this, one of the "stars" of the Real Housewives of New York is named Aviva.

As Goethe so astutely instructs us, Dream no small dreams.

I have always suspected that my dreams were on the ho-hum side and you have confirmed it.