To my fellow classmates: I have been writing since I can remember. I have been told that I have an advanced vocabulary (well beyond those of expletives, and then some). The earliest memory I can recall was writing on my grandmother’s ancient Microsoft computer in the summer following fourth grade. I spent all of my free time writing. I would spend hours staring at the blinking cursor, eventually persisting through periods of writer's block. I typed, furiously, in a hurry for the words that had been