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School I went to three different high schools: Freshman and sophomore years spent at Sumter High--I remember dressing up for Gamecock week (I still have a picture dressed up as a clown); riding around the ice cream shop parking lot; roller skating. My biggest crush there was on Mark Briggs. My very best friend then and now is Lora Porter (she even introduced me to my husband). Junior year was at Shelby County High in Kentucky. It was the first time in my life I went to school with members of my family other than my brothers. My time at Shelby High was very special and has a very special place in my heart. I had some very special relationships there...I remember--finding out that football was not the "it" sport (go UK!!!--that's for you, Charley!); learning about how tobacco was dried; seeing some of the most beautiful horse ranches ever; having Mr. Carr for Biology and busting a gut when he buried a straight pin with a bead on the end in one of the oysters that was being dissected; my fa...Expand for more