Compared to most people I know, my upbringing was a little different. Two acres of forest in the backyard, parents still married and only on their first marriage, a boy and a girl (myself and my sister), a cat and a dog, and fish won every so often at various festivals. I didn’t really have neighbors growing up, and all of my friends from school lived quite far away. I was left most of the time with my sister (whom, truthfully, I didn’t like until we were older), my backyard of trees, my books, and my im more...
