I understood that risk, as well as the additional complications because of our family's wealth and public profile. There were an awful lot of lawyers out there who would jump at the chance to sue my family for something like that, just to make a name for themselves. To this day I have to wonder how things might have gone differently. There were some really cute, sweet girls in my high school but I never dared ask any of them out.
Aside from my mother, everyone else assumed my new swagger was because I was finally healthy for the first time in my life. It wasn't until well into the summer following my sophomore year that I realized I hadn't missed a single day of class that entire school year. I hadn't even been sick once! That was simply mind-boggling to me at the time.
I had two really
