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What were you doing when you were 14?

I played football on the B team at my high school because they had showers in the Gym.

We won every game that year. I was not a starter. The coach would put me in at the end of the game. Last 2 minutes.

I boxed that year. Three fights. I was always there at the end when they raised the other guys hand. They were just better. Not tougher. Just better.

I took Algebra from Flora Shyrock. Only teacher I ever had that could bounce an eraser off a kids head, 10 seats from the front row. And with a curve - yet. She had been teaching for 50 years. She went on another 10 years, retired and lived to almost a hundred. God, I loved that woman. She was to me what every teacher should be. She taught. And she knew her subject: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II, and Trig. I missed the last three from her.

I turned 15 on a boat to Germany, for a three year stay.