Gare Davis:
CLASS OF 1993
West High SchoolClass of 1993
Wichita, KS
Gare's Story
Life
I've squeezed so much nothing and everything into the past 13 years. It feels like a full lifetime since I last saw everyone and sometimes it feels like yesterday. It's hard to imagine but so much has happened in my life.
I live in Chicago now. I work at a piano bar doing almost everything possible. I'm training for a marathon this year. Actually I'm hoping to run two marathons this year. I ran my first marathon in December of 2005 in Honolulu, HI. I'm hooked. Things are fairly calm and easy going, but just a few years ago in Florida things weren't always as so.
I was living the life of a touring rock star (Note I was NOT a touring rockstar. I was only living as though I were one.) My life has been like a made for television movie. I've has sex, drugs, murder, death, violence, alcoholism. It's been a roller coaster ride that I finally was able to get off of and start being more productive in the world.
I started smoking in my early 20's. I stopped smoking in late 20's. I became a raging alcoholic in my early 20's. I considerably slowed my drinking down to almost nonexistent in my l...Expand for more
ate 20's. In my early 20's I started using drugs. It started out as minor experimentation. It blossomed into a full blown habit. In my mid-late 20's I stopped using drugs altogether. In my late 20's I became a vegetarian.
As most of you already gathered long before I ever admitted it to myself, much less anyone else, I am gay. I cannot really imagine that comes as too much of a shock to anyone, and if it does, okay. I spent the better part of my teens trying to help myself, along with others understand and come to terms with my sexuality. If you have a problem with it, it's your problem, not mine. I'll ask you to remember that please.
Right now with my life I'm a little up-in-arms at what I am actually going to do with it, but that's okay. I'm still young. I still don't know if I'd like to finish college (I was asked to leave). I'm not sure if I want to move to Africa and help orphans of the AIDS epidemic. I don't know if I wanna just keep doing what I am currently doing and just slip into the background unnoticed. I guess it'll all just have to figure itself out. I'll be okay regardless.
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