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I'm a trained reporter, so I know how to ask questions. Open-ended questions that elicit answers. Simple follow-ups like "What do you mean?", which lead to deeper information. My kids are, hands down, my toughest interviewees -- especially when asked how school went today -- managing to respond to every question with one-word, dead-end answers. Not so last Friday, when my teenage son and daughter couldn't wait to tell me about a former NBA point guard who talked to their entire Connecticut high school that day about drug abuse. Maybe you're familiar with the story of Chris Herren. They weren't. They learned about his eye-popping talent, how it, and every penny he made, was squandered in a blur of addiction that started with what he thought was innocent marijuana use in ninth grade and escalated to binges of cocaine, oxycontin, crystal meth and heroin. They and their classmates were riveted, some of them sobbing, others raising their hands and sharing personal demons brought forth by...