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Not Your Typical Senior Year
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: All You Need Is Love
By Paula Perkins Hoffman He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Senior year of high school is supposed to be about three things: friends, picking a college, and graduation. My senior year wasn't like that... not at all. Brian and I met when I was a freshman and he was a sophomore and dated throughout high school. He enlisted in the United States Army the summer before my senior year, the year he graduated. When he first enlisted, we didn't think that he would be shipped off right away, but we were wrong. He enlisted in May and was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia two months later, three days after my senior year began. On top of the usual voices saying, "This is your last year of high school, make the best of it," and, "You need to pick your top choice school," I also had to worry about Brian. The mailman and I became very good friends during the time Brian was in basic training. I remember when I got that very first little green envelope. My school's theater department was putting on one of our biggest musical productions yet: Peter Pan. My mom and I had been texting sporadically throughout rehearsal, with me mainly asking if anything had shown up in the mail yet. When she brought me my fast food dinner, she also handed me that little green envelope. I tore it open as quickly as I could, trying to save as much of the envelope as possible. (Keep reading)  
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