Baldwin,

Notes of a Confused Son Ned Bartlett I thought it would be quick and painless – it turned out to be quite the opposite. Reasoning with parents, as any self-respecting teenager will agree, is extremely difficult if not impossible. Recently I had been thinking hard about my future and which road I was going to take to get there. I decided that I wanted to skip my senior year at Friends School to move on with …

…than to talk. Others to whom I’ve spoken are standing behind me, whether I stay at Friends or not. All of these thoughts about my future are viable and worthy of serious contemplation. My parents, my teachers, myself… everything funnels down to a consensus between my mind and my heart. All that I have left from my lists and discussions, though, is a permeating headache and a head full of life-altering decisions to make.