Randall Poster and Josh Deutsch met in the mid-seventies, when they were in seventh grade. Josh Deutsch and Randall PosterIllustration by João Fazenda “A girl I knew from sleepaway camp—maybe she was my first girlfriend—introduced us,” Poster said recently. “Probably at a bar mitzvah.” “Not my bar mitzvah,” Deutsch said. “Not mine, either,” Poster said. “Although we were at each other’s bar mitzvahs.” At the time, Deutsch, who lived in New Jersey, was attending Riverdale Country School, in the Bronx, and Poster, who lived in Riverdale, was a student at Horace Mann, next door. They were both into music. They bought and spun and talked about records, pored over the