No, our SAT’s were good enough to get money if we needed it. And even with the bad grades, the captain of the wrestling team attaboy as well as the

Academic Decathlon

stuff we did later were enough accolades to sell us.

The University of Hawaii as well as

UC Santa Cruz

both offered us some sort of packages, from the few envelopes we actually opened.

But the same way I’m exploring my character now, that’s all I seemed to care about back then.

We didn’t identify with the people going to college. We’ve seen where they’ve ended up. This is

half a lifetime ago

We’re 36 now. People have made decisions and lived through their consequences.

The ones who went to the Berkeleys, the Harvards. The ones who decided to have children, or careers, or both.

what were our decisions?

Well, there was that Army recruiter.