Gary Antonich:  

from up here my senior year. What some people don't know is when the family was moving to Tucson our U-Haul broke down just outside of Tucumcari New Mexico. That turned out to be an 8 hr ordeal waiting for a towtruck from Albq......Once we got the truck towed, my sister and I had to downsize our belongings in the parking lot to lesson the cost of the moving company. Needless to say my sister's and my wedding gift to our mom and her new husband was discarded away and I heard the glass break as the box hit the ground. I got really pissed. We ended up bringing just enough clothes to get by until we got a place to live permanantly......Tha's why my senior yearbook pic had me in a long sleeve shirt and tie, which I had to go buy since all of our stuff was still in storage. Along the ride from Albq to Tucson we stopped in Truth or Consequenses New Mexico.I was still pissed about the wedding gift getting tossed and I smarted off while we stopped for gas and my Mother backhanded me right across the face. I pretty much had enough and left the car and headed up into the mountains. I crossed the Rio Grande on a small rickety footbridge and I was gone. I got to the top of a mountain and saw absolutely nothing in any direction I looked except for the police car waiting for me at the edge of town. I was easy to spot, wearing a red shirt. My sister understood why I was so pissed but my mother never got it. I really love Tucson. I have alot of respect for Coach Brown, who was like a step father to me. I and my sister did not get along with 'Bob', my 3rd father.... We all grow older and start to minimalize what we were going through but it all shapes us and who we become as the years go by. That was a short trip of my senior year, some good things happened too!!!!! Thanks for stopping in. Hope you are having as much fun in life as I am.