Rick Derington:  

Life I bet most of you are surprised that I'm on Classmates. In high school think I came off as disaffected and self-absorbed, and certainly too cool to be a part of something like this. However, in the years since Glendale I've changed a whole lot. After high school I began my roller coaster with addiction. Addiction alone is bad enough, but addiction is never enough - I would do anything to pay for my habit. There are accompanying evils such as pushing, prostituting and pandering, which I participated in briefly, until a friend picked me up one day and took me to a treatment center. It took me about six months to straighten my life out in Springfield, and, against the advice of my therapist, I decided that a change of scenery would be the final step in my recovery. So I packed up and moved to San Francisco. Not surprisingly, without my support group, I ran into trouble...Expand for more