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I also graduated high school and turned 18 in 1996.

I worked part time in a grocery store, a job that I hated. Maybe the worst thing was that we had no finish time. The schedule said what time we started, and we went home when the boss decided we could. I remember coming in at 7 AM one Saturday when the store was super busy and being there until after 6 PM.

I also had a big crush on a girl. I put off asking her until right before the prom, and totally fucked things up and made myself look like a creep too. She was also really shitty to me too I think, but whatever. That's behind me now.

I considered going to the prom alone and just hanging out with my friends but instead opted to take the money I would have spent on the ticket, limo, tuxedo, etc. and decided to have fun with another friend who couldn't get a date and was missing the prom. We went to downtown Chicago then watched a show at Second City. Tina Fey was one of the cast members. I had a great time, actually.

High school graduation was a big deal because it was the first time I ever had both my mother's and my father's family come over at the same time. And they have pretty big families. Between all my uncles and aunts and cousins there were like 60 people there. Some friends came to meet me and they said they had a hard time finding me.

I also remember my 18th birthday. I went out with the same group of friends to a party at some really rich kid's house. I went to a prep school in the suburbs so there were a lot of them. It was the last time I saw my high school classmates outside of my circle of close friends.