The Good Son
Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men
Chapter One
What Does
It Mean to
Have a Son?
The sun shined brightly that morning as I left home and walked
the distance to my new school. We lived in Laramie, Wyoming,
and I was entering seventh grade. We had recently moved to
Laramie, so I had few friends yet. As I walked up the steps that
day, I was one of a melee of boys and girls who still wanted to be
kids but would never admit it, and wanted to be adults already
but were scared of adulthood.
That afternoon, I went to my English class and sat at a desk in
the middle of the room—not so far back that I was pegged as a
troublemaker or stupid, and not right in front so I got called on a
lot. A man of about thirty sat reading at the teacher's desk. He
had close-cut black hair and a black beard, and he wore plain
brown pants and a white shirt with a button-down collar. I
couldn't tell his height yet, though he seemed tall. Behind him on
the blackboard was written, "The Adventures of Huckleberry
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