Right on, Firecat. I too was hounded by playground bullies, jocks, and sadists right from grade 1 through graduation...because I was small, and because I was different from them.

Now I have the satisfaction of still looking young when most of them are fat, bald, and out of shape...if not dead...and being a free man when most of them are tied down to a ton of stuff they no longer even care about or desire. They have become living proof that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Ha ha! I got the last laugh, it seems. Take that, Skaneateles, New York and Milton, Ontario!