Crowds

In high school every day, I was in a crowd where there was pushing and shoving to get to class, to get the lockers. Ducking, twisting and turning, it was impossible to get from point A to point B through all the teenage girls and boys. My sister saw me squirrel tunnels through the crowd. She couldn't believe how I got through so fast to make it in time for class. I was in a zone where it was stifling and I couldn't think. I just needed to make it through this maze, this labyrinth of adolescence coolness.

Debbie Strozier