The year was 1994. I was in eighth grade and I had just started at a new school, Orange Park Christian Academy. There were barely enough eighth graders to fill a classroom, so Dan was pretty much in all of my classes. He was a cooler dork than I was. I had seen Star Wars, but he had the technical drawings. He and I interacted daily but weren’t really friends outside of school. One day Dan got into a minor scuffle, and his academic career at OPCA abruptly ended. We kept in touch.
