Damn…

I own a house of my own.

And…a Mercedes-Benz…that I bought New…

New…! It’s mine…

And I’m working for the Hubble Space Telescope…

I’m actually working for the space program…   The fucking Space Program! Making a living at it…getting a paycheck for it and everything…   A really nice paycheck…

And I live within walking distance of where I work…and to two nice grocery stores and some nice restaurants and stuff…

And…I can just decide if I want to take a vacation to Key West later this spring…

Or go for a drive through the southwest…

And I own a house of my own…a fucking house of my own…

A house of my own…

How the hell did this ever happen to me…

The little geek whose clothes never fit right.   I was the joke of my Jr. High…   Ugly.   Crooked teeth.   Weird.   Everyone laughed…   I was a nerd…     A nothing…a little faggot…     A laugh…

Figured I’d always be a stock boy…a disposable run of the mill nothing…living in rented rooms somewhere if I was lucky…   Just struggling to survive and make ends meet…   Ugly…an ugly nothing…

How the hell did all this ever happen to me…