Most people learn how to write simple sentences. But writing one sentence after another making sense, now, that's something else. In my first year in college I could not write a paragraph that anyone would want to read and several professors complained about my work. In the days of pre-grade inflation, misplaced punctuation, an errant thought or a hideous trite cliche' would get docked...sometimes as much as one grade letter. After matriculating (you like that word?) I became a crime scene investigator. In the course of my truncated career...only eleven ye more...
