Under the Wire

Many years ago I attended a small, two room school about four miles from our ranch house. We didn’t have many neighbors so two rooms was enough for the eight or 10 kids spread out over four or five grades. Since I entered on the young end of the age groups I cannot tell you how many girls were in the school. Hadn’t even come close to being interested in them. In fact I was excited that my younger sister was attending an entirely different school miles away! There were, however, six boys. Ironically, three of us were named Gary. What are the odds? In later years, I learned various names are pop...