Kathleen Oberman:  

I was one of the strange catholic kids who sat up front with the other nerds. Only the teachers liked us. On Thursdays we would be bussed out for instruction at the parish. Mrs. Schultz the principal at Charlotte Avenue used to read my poetry over the loudspeaker during morning announcements. I am still a poet. Mrs. Ball couldn't make me sing the scales but she sure could make me cry! In junior high I wore raggedy clothes and was always slinking off to the bathroom to smoke. I had Mrs. Titus for English and she inspired me. I got asked to leave a social studies class once for asking too many questions. I hated gym but was with the sync. swimming team. I loved my home economic classes. My mother made me take Latin and I dropped out after a week. guidance counselor named Don Brocious became my friend and saved my Life! High school was more of the same except I would cut class to go out to the small wooded area and smoke weed with my other weird friends. I dropped out my junior year and got my GED two months later. My test scores were so high the continuing ed director called to find out how I had done it? I thought of the evenings I would cut class to go smoke weed with my girlfriends, and of the complicated math skills I taught myself as I studied my new found passion for astrolog...Expand for more