mass academy (nick and jer and andy's math school) graduation 1998.
this mountain of corn silk in the forground is katie wade, who i love. why? i ask you- why not? the entirety of it is that she just strikes me as a good person. trials and tribulations and foibles sure, but solid. she used to live across from our nick- they used to hang out and go to daycare together at dmysliweic's. some items of note:

sat next to her in 4th grade- she drew lots of horses.

is a polyglot- knows french, spanish, italian, all quite fluently.

great great (x number of greats) grandfather invented the modern marshmallow.

no longer lives in worcester but her new house has a huge cherry tree in the front yard.

for these reasons and a certain je ne sais quois, i dedicated my second tape to her.