Standing in Standing in the registration line at Midland State University, Billy impatiently shifted his weight from one leg to the other. The line was not moving. In fact, he was not even sure that he was in the right line. Everything was new and bewildering to him. He was on his own now, away from home for the first time.
As he waited, he found his mind producing images of familiar and comfortable scenes from his youth, as if to reassure him with a sense of stability and purpose. He had no way of knowing the turns that his life was about to take. He expected to learn a great deal in college, but he was not expecting to learn so much about himself. Neither was he expecting that he would get deeply….