Allison Staley:  

We moved a lot while I was growing up. I usually went to a different school every year which made fitting in and making/keeping friends difficult. But the friends I made, I still hold dear to my heart. During 9th grade we moved half way during the school year, making that year a two-school year. For my junior year I went to Plymouth Area High School and that summer my parents discussed moving again. I begged them to wait so that I could attend a school for longer than one year and graduate from a school I had grown to love. Even though it was important to me to stay at Plymouth for my senior year, I didn't spend much time there during that year. Most of my graduating credits were fulfilled by that time and I wasn't much interested in the academic part of school anyway (that changed in college where I earned a 4.0 gpa). I spent a great deal of time in Silver Hall over at Plymouth State College playing the piano in one of the practice rooms or just driving around town in my white Vega, until I totaled it trying to climb a tree on a dirt road with Bobby Belair and Winston (last name?) in the car. After high school I moved to California. Then to Dallas, back to California,...Expand for more