S. Stephen Stephen Spring, Esq.:  

There's nothing better than our Senior year. I remember what I call the Malt Liquor BK basketball game. I had eaten four doughnuts the entire day and before the game, Charlie M. had the Buick Electra 225 yellow station wagon and we all piled in indulging ourselves with Malt Liquor. I remember everyone looking our way during the game, and waking up with the cold air hitting my face after the party coming across the bridge onto Atlantic Blvd. Can't tell you a thing about the party, although I was told someone put a cat on my head. To say the least, when I fell down the stairs going up to my room, it didn't take too long for my parents to figure things out. Then the nights out at the beach at the hole. I had such a great year following at FSU, my 1.5 GPA for my freshman year landed me back in Jax at North Florida. Bouncing back with a 3.6 for that year and learning from my cousin in New Orleans there was a party school in Lafayette, Louisiana, Jack Obi and I were off to this place called Lafayette. It rained every day the first 17 days we were there. That's where we learned about the Cajun culture because we were smack dab in the middle of it. Mais cher, as they say, we learned a little French = "Laissez les bon temps rouler!" which is "Let the good times roll.!" What a great culture. After losing a year's worth of credits since USL (University of Southwestern Louisiana) was on a semester system, I made it through. Got involved in student government and got elected President my senior year. Spent another year in graduate school in creative writing and then off to Baton Rouge to law school. Most dehumanizing year (the first year) I ever spent. Spent it in the stadium dorm (yes there were dorm rooms built in Death Valley - LSU's football stadium). Huey Long, the Kingfish, couldn't get money appropriated for the stadium because it was illegal at the time, so Uncle Huey got the money for the dormitory which turned out to be housed in the stadium. When the legislature wouldn't give him the money for an entire highway running from North Louisiana to South Louisiana, Huey took what he could get and started the highway in the middle. Since the highway started in the middle was absolutely useless, the legislature gave him the money the next year to finish it. Pretty shrewd fella. I'd say life in Louisiana is banana republic living at its finest. As we sometimes say, "we have the best politicians money can buy!" Met Stosh and Courtney's mother (first wife) who was from Lafayette when I was in law school. I met her out with a friend of mine. We were both working in the legislature that summer so after making a date with her, I got my friend Dan to call her and try to get her to break the date. She wouldn't break it and after marriage and two kids, things didn't work out. ...Expand for more