Nathan Hoskins (NH): When I was in sixth grade, I had met a good friend, and he wasn’t interested in girls. One day, he said, “I have a Valentine’s Day card for you.” I asked him for it, and he said it was so special that he mailed it. And he didn’t know he’d done a very terrible thing because at my house, only one person got the mail–and that was my mother.

On the way home, I was trying to plan how I would get that letter, but when I got off the bus, Mom had already checked the mail. My mom came out and met me on the front steps. She had that envelope, and I could tell what it was ’cause it had little hearts on it, and you know, it was all cute and everything–and she’d asked me if I had read it. And I said, “No.” And she made me read it, and I did everything I could to lie and convince my mother I did not solicit that. And she took me into the house and pulled her shotgun out of the cl...
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