I was born in Duluth, Minnesota. At age three me and my family moved to Silverton, a suburb of Cinncinnati, Ohio. I had several freinds, the best of which was Harry Kramer, though I almost never saw him outside of school. I remember little of the time in Silverton: just bits and peices. I had a next door neighbor whose name I've forgotten. She babysat me sometimes, and I was stuck watching whatever her son, Bobby wanted to watch. This allowed me to nearly memorize Home Alone, and be able to distinguish between the Power Rangers, a skill that to this day has not been of any use to me.

I faintly remember school, although a few things stick. It was called Fairveiw German Bilingual School, and was in the inner city. There were bars on the windows of the school, and I remember seeing a man walk by once that had a whole mess of tattoos to replace a T-shirt. I once narrowly avoided getting beat up for something that another Ben had done, which terrified me. I was in the school's gifted and talented program, so about every week I would have to march up the stairs to the fifth or fourth floor and do things that would supposedly help my learning expirience. One time we had the "priviledge" to disect a cow's heart and the eye of a goat. The smell was very offensive to me, a small, lonely third grader.

The next major part of my life took place in St. Peter, Minnesota. When I was nine my parents divorced and my mom was given custody of me and Anni; my dad visitation rights. So my mom moved to St. Peter because she had family there and in South Dakota. For our first five years here we lived in a shithole apartment. Nothing all that noteworthy happened during that time. I made some freinds: Alex Lloyd, Curt Wilmes, Matt Geottl, Andrew Moller*, Joey Donahue. Funny story about Andrew; he molested a child and had to move to Mankato. Bastard owes me fourty bucks. The rest of them will probably be mentioned in Person of the Week at some point in time.

The past two years have been fun. I've made a lot of freinds, too many for me to list here accurately. My dad moved to St. Peter. I'm a junior now. And I've started a web site that is the sum total of my life. If you read everything here, you will get to know me, and my ideas. Have fun.

*This name has been changed to protect the guilty.

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