Greatly appreciated. Thanks tons.
Certainly that sort of thing is epidemic in our society, imho.
Great your parents were sane!
What helped it sink in most that life was too short to get too up-tight about such things--and that having fun could be a viable higher priority than busting a blood-vessel staring?
Thanks for the input.
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Probably the realization that no matter what I had done in Pennsylvania that moving to Ohio was in essence a fresh start.
that and I was entirely sick of the area I was living in in PA.