Secrets that would go when the walls came down

“If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they’d tell.” — Gayle Forman, writer That question was evidently on my mind many years ago. April 3, 1975, to be exact. More to the point, it was the first sentence in the first published news story bearing my byline. The first week of my first newspaper job. That story and my writing career began, “If buildings could talk, there is one in…