Just a few weeks officially we’re left to the end of the school year and I would become a high school graduate. It felt surreal. How I went from a scamp to a champ would forever have me thinking about it. I had been feeling nostalgic for a month now and as much as I wanted a new beginning, a fresh new start to leave this town with all its woes behind, I couldn’t help feeling that way. This town was practically the only life I knew,, and even though the orphanage where I had been brought up, at least, till I was seven years had been closed down, the memories were still fresh in my mind like it was yesterday. These memories weren’t happy one’s, mind you, they were dark and full of regret. There were particular days families would come to visit the kids in the orphanage and we would be tol

