The senior year of high school, what a pivotal time in a person's life. Jim Swarthow was a senior as average as any other of his time. He grew up in an average sized town in Tennessee, and attended a high school with the population of 1,200 students. As a student he made fair grades, yet never cracked a book when he left the doors of school heading home. School was not very important to Jim because his father had him helping the family business at a very young age. Although he never failed any courses in his school career, he never excelled either.
Jim ran with the popular crowd at his high school. He was an "in" guy that was more of follower than he was a leader. Ridgemont High School was a typical high school that had its typical social divisions. Its classrooms consisted of the cool guys, the nerds, the jocks, and the normal kids. The school was considered to be more middle class, with a fair share of upper class and lower class students. Jim was a middle class kid......
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