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I opened the Marshall News Messenger this morning and there was my face on page 2. Kind of scary.The Messenger runs a "History From Our Files" photo feature of old pictures from their photo morgue. This morning they ran a 1973 photo of the Marshall High School football team tryout squad meeting. There I was, a ghost from the past.
What makes this photo ironic is that THAT particular photo is the only one in existence of me being anywhere near a football team. That photo could only have been taken that specific day to have me in it, because I played hookie from my athletics 6th period class the rest of that school year to focus my energies on working on the school newspaper, of which I was Editor In Chief.
Why was I there at all? I was a mile runner in track, had NO interest in going out for the football team, but was forced by the track coach to attend that squad meeting.
Well, I thought it was ironic. The only photographic record of my high school life is a misleading one.
I reckon I corn-fused them in high school. I had the athlete's letter jacket for track, but I was the four-eyed school newspaper editor and president of the chess club. Mixed messages. Nerd or jock?
I was forced to thump a badass biker in the Dairy Queen parking lot one night and after that, the bullies and nerds gave me wide berth in the hallways.
Now, after 33 years away in the military and in Los Angeles, I come back to find the Marshallites even MORE wary of me.
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