Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.