The town did not change much. Towns never do, not on the big scale. The Ashford head of school retired in the spring, and the new one hired a counselor, and the counselor started a program nobody wanted to fund. Two parents moved away. Three didn't. The man in the windbreaker, Douglas Reyes, pleaded guilty in a courtroom thirty miles from the clubhouse and got seven years. He did not look at me when he said it.
I learned something about second chances that year, standing in that courtroom and sitting on that dorm bed.
A second chance is not a reward. It's just another morning. You wake up, and nothing is fixed, and you have to decide again whether to be the person who sees things or the person who pretends not to.
Cassidy Webb and I are not friends. We probably never will be. I don't kn
