A Bright Road Ahead

Summary

When it came time to fill out our college applications, my family focused all their attention on my brother, who suffered from severe claustrophobia.

My mother pored over the dorm room sizes at several universities in our city.

"Let's just stay local," she said. "It's closer to home, and it'll be easier to take care of Cyrus."

Maya Simmons, my girlfriend of three years, even changed her first choice, giving up a university where she had planned to study political science and law in favor of a local teachers college.