discipline for a kid still two years shy of meeting the PG-13 movie rating. It was a pretty prescient move on my part. It’s the first instance that I can pinpoint where I did something like that, where I took a direct action toward meeting a goal. I was getting plenty of exercise with wrestling and other activities, but I recognized that I needed to monitor my diet. I had the wherewithal to tell my parents to buy specific groceries to help me out. It was at that precise moment that I stopped eating desserts. I was in Wisconsin, “the Dairy State,” yet I quit eating pizza at a time when most
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