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The first, ... and most beautiful woman to cause trouble in my life, ...was my mother.

Ninety-nine parts angel, and one part reluctant martyr, she was, undoubtedly, the main proponent in the development of my unrealistic interpersonal expectations.

Together with her accomplice, ninety-nine parts saint and one part devil, ...my father, ...they conspired to project a steadfast environment of calm and non-drama.

I bathed in this stellar atmosphere throughout my childhood even as I and my siblings routinely made their lives a living hell. But then let's face it,.. that's what kids do for a living.

Now, as I have comically alluded, and convention would strongly suggest, this environment would have impacted significantly on my "formation".

Well, these days I'm not buying any of that crap, and convention,along with it's cronies, will be on trial throughout this offering.

Now while kids will be kids, especially at home, the peaceful demeanor of my adolescent environment extended to my neighboring friends. Relative social outcasts, we did not smoke or drink, and "drugs" apparently had not yet been invented. We operated on pure energy and curiosity, we didn't smash other people's stuff, hell, we even tried not to smash our own stuff!

Definitely nerds, we whined when we had to wear handed down pants with the crotch too low, ... they slowed us down...and it never occurred to us to wear our hats backwards in a cry for "identity"...whatever that was.

Many labels were lost to our comprehension...such as wealth, power, and freedom, ... we did not understand that we, of course, lived the essence of those ideas.

T.V. was a tenuous infant that we devoured on sparse occasions at our Grandpa's house, and cyber­space had not even been dreamed of.

We were hard and fast, but definitely "hick" not "hip". And, on our introduction, the "real world" hit us like a freight train.

Many of us careened off into the pits of social dementia, never to fully recover.