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I first remember Tyler walking into Kindergarten with a Superman cape on, calmly taking it off, and putting it on the back of his chair like a jacket. Since I always dressed up as Batman, I thought he would be cool to hang around and went over to his house later that day to play superheros.
Brett used to pick on both of us. Brett was a problem child - in our soccer games which normally had 40 to 50 people on a side, he would pick up rocks and throw them randomly into the air to liven up the game.
We didn't really become the 3 Musketeers until middle school (Brett still denies picking on us - he was playing he said). Tyler and I were in wrestling together, and we lifted weights together as well. I was the class nerd (and if not the class clown, the sarcastic, quick witted clown); Brett was the class clown (and very well liked), and Tyler had the looks of Adonis and was very popular with the ladies, so it would seem like I was the odd man out, but we all wanted better things than what our small farming town and classmates had to offer so we stuck together. Since Tyler hung around me so much instead of going out - he could have dated any girl he wanted to - there was a rumor that we were gay - probably didn't help much when people would come upon us in the country lying on the hood of my car at night looking at the stars and just talking.
Tyler would also drive me crazy in that because he was so good looking all the pretty girls that we would meet wanted to only talk to him. We once went to an amusement park, and we all went on the logjam ride together. At the end of the ride, you get on a conveyor belt that takes you up an incline, and then you shoot down the other side (which has water on it). At the top is a little cage for a park worker to sit and make sure you're not doing something stupid like standing up. In it was a cute blonde girl who radio'ed down to the people taking tickets to stop us on our way out. We thought we were in trouble because we had been rocking the boat, but it turns out the girl just wanted Tyler's phone number. :) Tyler was the first to marry and divorce (Brett will never divorce, and I'm still single). I always felt that he was in a rush to achieve the American dream of wife, house, and good job. He's since matured as well as mellowed out. He's living in St. Louis in a house that's way to big for one person, but he's having the time of his life fixing it - he's very handy with tools.
Brett was never much of one for schooling. He went to a community college to get a degree in DJ'ing. Did that for a while but didn't like it. Took up with a traveling petting zoo for a while but quit after a couple of weeks then tried to immigrate to England to work in the music business (he's a natural musician). His travel agent didn't tell him he needed a worker's permit so he only got as far as Heathrow Airport before getting shipped back - after which he sued the agent and won - even though the judge insulted him all the way through the case. Then he decided to go to Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, and finish his 4 year degree, and he married a girl from his church in our hometown. She's 8 or 9 years his junior. They started dating while she was in high school, and he went to prom for a 3rd time as her date. They're now in Nashville but thinking of moving back to close to our hometown because she misses her family.
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