This takes me back to HSS, circa 1998.
Mike, it's a pity I couldn't fully describe the teachers I had. Yes, I've rough edges, but if you had the mentors I had and learned the things I did, you wouldn't be able to help being rough, too. You'd be outspoken and unafraid. You'd be equal parts scathing and kind. You'd be fun to talk to because you've no use for the trite or the commonplace. You won't always be polite, too, because politeness can often keep you from saying the things you want or need to blurt out. Civility and the need to keep up appearances, you see, can sometimes be why people spend their lives wasting away.
So yeah, I'm rough because all my life, I've moved, interacted, talked, and thought with people who are as rough as they are brilliant. To people used to the smoothness of the conventional and the typical, roughness would be appalling. I find it appealing, however, because I know how hard it is to find.
If Rose enjoys taking the road less traveled, so do I. To some extent (to a one-school-year extent), she is partly responsible for molding me into the person I have become. For that, Rose, I'm grateful.
Disclaimer: Yech! I bet I'd want to delete this an hour after. Hahaha
Hello Chin,
If Rose were my high school teacher, I would have been the next proofreader of FHM Magazine.
And, Chin, if you were my classmate in high school, unfortunately and fortunately, I would have invited you to be the only flower girl on my wedding.
And if Paul were my classmate in high school, he would have been your husband today.
This is our lot.
For all the joys and pains, give thanks to our God in Christ Jesus.
Sincerely,
Mike
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