| It usually happens at night. That's when the memories from my experience at Smallville High come flooding back in. The first kiss, homecoming, football games, that prom thing, great times with friends and faculty and all the rest. The typical American high school experience, in the typical American small town.
I bet you're waiting for me to say, "Yeah, right." But I'm not going to.
Any junior or senior here can tell you about my meteor rock obsessions, about how much of an anomaly our experience was at Smallville High. But when current Torch editor Hayden Lori asked me to contribute one final article, I told her I'd do it only under one condition: that I didn't have to write about the meteor rocks and the effect that they had on the student body of Smallville High.
I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to work with so many great people during my four-year tenure as editor-in-chief of the Smallville High Torch. I spent many a late night ensconced in its aquamarine-colored walls covered with newspaper clippings that I hoped would piece together the madness our little hamlet was experiencing.
But two years removed from SHS have given me some perspective. With age and experience comes a bit of wisdom.
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And the truth is, no matter how messed up things got around here, it was always all about the relationships. And the relationships were all good.
Remember Pete Ross? He had to leave Smallville after our junior year. He went on to play football at Topeka High. He led his team to the state semifinals and was one game away from facing down our Clark Kent in the state championship game! Could you imagine? Pete's doing great now. He's in college, and we still keep in touch. Other contributors who deserve mention while I have the chance are Jake Black, who was with us from the very beginning--since year one. Craig Byrne has helped on so many levels, I cannot even begin to tell you. Tabitha Chapman, Clark Crozer and Brice Tidwell all deserve mention as well.
It's amazing to me that it has been two years since I graduated from SHS. Since then, I have been attending classes at Metropolis University and writing for The Daily Planet. Well, mostly I've been doing research for the bigwigs and writing obituaries in the basement, but you've got to start somewhere, right? And I did. I started at Smallville High. Here, on these very pages. At the Torch. It was my home base for four years, and no matter where the path leads me from here, the Torch and SHS will always hold special places in my heart.
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