Steve Thomas:  

After high school, I went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with the plan to be a doctor. I found, however, that required a lot more effort than I was willing to expend at the time. I got married at 19 just before my junior year, and then started going to classes, etc., and even got out a semester early. I was then a Deputy Sheriff in Philadelphia for a year and eight months, which was a very strange experience, but it was about the only job I could get (my mother was an old friend of the sheriff) with a BA in psychology while waiting for my wife to graduate and trying to decide what to do next. So I graduated from college, turned 21, had my pony tail cut off, and got sworn in all within about two weeks. It almost killed me when the sheriff said that the first thing I had to do was get a haircut! My wife and I decided to go to law school, and picked the University of Arizona in Tucson for a variety of reasons. We split up during our third year, and she moved to Phoenix and I stayed in Tucson. I ended up marrying another classmate, and we were together from 1977 until 2009 when she died of cancer (she just couldn't stop smoking). We didn't have any kids together, but she had a son from her first marriage. He also became a lawyer, and has a wife and a very cute daughter who turned five at the end of 2009. I visit them as often as possible in Seattle. I'm still practicing law, thoug...Expand for more