when i was about 11, i visited my distant cousins on their farm in southern Illinois. My eldest cousin, about 30 at the time, was and is a high school graduate

when i was about 11, i visited my distant cousins on their farm in southern Illinois. My eldest cousin, about 30 at the time, was and is a high school graduate who finished, turned around and went right back to work farming cattle and corn. i figured that 1. i was obviously hot shit at chess and 2. there was no way this hayseed could possibly beat me. when the inevitable humiliating defeat was meted out to me, i did not forget it. On the other side of the coin, i’m still trusting MDs with my medical problems, not the guy down the street whose grandmother has strange ideas about the curative power of crystals, prayer, and raw garlic enemas.