New Jersey

Then it was about 5 years later, a weekend in the Poconos, sponsored by a local business for there employees.

3 A.M., I am in my room when my co-roomie come in, drunk, on his ass. I had no idea who the roomie was going to be. Come to find out, he graduated three years earlier than me. He was "end" on the football team.

"I remember you. I was in the band.... saw all your games. You were good."

Then he broke out crying, the time he got hurt and so forth.


Same 5 years later, there was a family, two of the three kids were football stars at our h.s.. Third kid was supposed to be the center. It was all around town that the kid broke out crying because he didn't want to be on the team anymore.


It is its own form of child abuse.