What I wanted to "be when I grew up" first, before anything else, was a football player.

I was three years old when the subject came up. I wore a humongous football helmet around the house and ran with no seeming direction—sometimes in circles, sometimes into walls due to an oversized helmet blocking my vision—whenever a game was on television. But I also wore a mask and bounced on a spring horse when Zorro was on. And acted out every A. A. Milnes character on the stage of my childhood bed when I was read "Winnie the Pooh" bedtime stories. I think I was a doer right from the beginning. Oh, how early we display our unique personalities! Read more...

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