“You have a booger in your nose.” those were the first words spoken to me on my first day of high school, public high school at least. Everything felt new, even though I had been in an environment just like this all of my grade school years. Actually, everything didn’t just feel new, they were new. I realized that every single friend I had in grade school, had changed, dramatically. We weren’t playing kickball on the playground anymore, they had grown up just as I did. Plus, I wouldn’t be with any of them anyway, I had been promoted to the graduating class above them, I had left them. I left them when I made the switch to a private education and again when I accepted the offer of graduating a year earlier. I had never really thought about the
