© JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT VIA GETTY IMAGESDylan Klebold examines a bowling pin used for target practice at a makeshift shooting range on March 6, 1999, about six weeks before unleashing the worst school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School.
The last two days in Cambridge were relentless, but in the best possible way. My wife Tammy and I flew in early in the morning from Amsterdam after three days of nonstop press and talks. Then we slept for three hours and found The Maison du Steak, which served an excellent ribeye. The waiter knew of my work and said that it had helped him. We snapped a picture together.
I spoke that night to a capacity crowd of 1,850 at the Corn Exchange - originally a warehouse where farmers and merchants traded cereal grains, but a concert hall since 1971. Pink Floyd's founder Syd Barrett played his last concert there; it has housed performances by everyone from Boxcar Willie to David Bowie.
One of the impossibly cool aspects of this 90-city tour has been the chance to visit all these famous and infamous concert halls - The Orpheum in L.A., The Fillmore in Detroit, London's Apollo Hammersmith, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium (original home of the Grand Ole Opry, where 1,200 people sang Happy Birthday to me in June) - and to follow in the footsteps of performers like Johnny Cash, Minnie Pearl, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen. It's an unexpected privilege, with a surreal aspect.
That night at the Corn Exchange, I spoke about Rule 6 from my book,
12 Rules for Life: Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.
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