“It’s been said that our high school years are the best years of a person’s life. I respectfully disagree. While I’ve met fantastic people here at Adamson Academy, while I’ve fallen in love with a beautiful girl”—he looks right at me, and my cheeks flame as the crowd turns to see who it is that’s captured that blinding smile of his—“I think there are no best moments in life. We’re all just lucky to be alive, period. And if we’re happy here, in this little corner of time, this slice of forever, then that’s enough.”
