Friday nights for kids in the Midwest:
“Meet at McDonald’s”
“I’m bored let’s go drive around”
“Party at the barn”
“Run to the corn”
and the late nights at Perkins
me at 7 years old: bilingual, gifted classes, mentally/physically healthy, able to do math
me now: illiterate, health is nonexistent, and needs a calculator to solve 5+6