Originally posted by Parallax This is a bit disconcerting. When you were his age?
What changed?
I was his age in 1962, but let's not talk about that.
I marched with martin Luther King Jr. that year, saw my grandfather for the last time before he died actually the last time I saw him was at the MLK march, we ran into each other in the crowd, , made the varsity football team as a 14 year old and that was the only year I wasn't an allstar, 14 was a big year for me. I was a lot more serious then than i am now. My friends said I was born old. There were people who had known me of years that had never heard me crack a joke or even seen me smile.