My parents were gathered around the neighbor's tv set while I made a boom in my pants.

No...that was not when I learned of the Challenger!



For that, I was in the high school library desperately trying to finish my trig homework before seventh period.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.