Vickie's senior portrait. I didn't really know or start hanging out with Vickie until my junior year. Most of my friends had graduated, and I was feeling pretty down about it. She got me involved with MBR, thereby increasing not only my social circle but my involvement with Mr. Baer. Considering the impact he alone has had on my life since then, she deserves a spot of honor for that if nothing else.

In the past, Vickie has told people that I 'saved her life'--which I don't think is really true. She's been basically an unhappy person for at least as long as I've known her, and I was able to be an outlet for whatever she needed to vent about. Family problems, friend problems, whatever. But we fought a lot, too...mostly because she didn't feel like I put as much as she did into our friendship. Time passes on, and people change...but once upon a time, Vickie was one of the best friends I'd ever had.