Sam Barlow High School Class of 1996 Reunion

So it's time for that event of all events, that great pinnacle of early adulthood, the moment we've all been waiting for.... my ten-year high school reunion. A deliberate reunion of people who once were idiots and didn't know it, and who are now idiots and do know it, has to be one of the most complex emotional issues to face humanity, ever. Some people loved high school and hate the thought of growing old; others loved school but would rather leave the past dead and buried in the yearbooks. I suppose I'm in the middle. I had a lot of good experiences at Barlow High. I also spent a lot of fruitless hours during that period trying to be happy and achieving exactly the opposite. In fact, I don't believe I knew how to maintain a stable emotional and intellectual state until about the age of twenty-three or twenty-four. And that was only after graduating from college, getting married and having children. (You might wonder what raising children has to do with a stable emotional state: I wonder too sometimes)....

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