Crystal City High School - Crystalite Yearbook (Crystal City, MO)

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CLASS OF 71

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SENIORS

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SENIORS Dan Schunks Mike Coopci Brenda Pigg Dave Aubuchon T Y' President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Senior! End of the end and beginning of the beginning! Four thousand-three hundred-and twenty hours of sweat, tears, hopes, and fears—going, then gone! Mixed emotions a heart brimming with joy, abounding with life; a heart empty and sullen, burnt out. At long last. Freedom! Freedom from tests. Freedom from teachers. Freedom to be what you are; freedom from being made to play the part of something you aren’t. Freedom, after a short eternity, to enter a New World. Alone, the mind gravitates toward greater honesty. Lying in bed, counting the cracks in the ceiling-alone. Driving, eyeing the black-white-black-white ribbon as it snakes toward infinity—alone. Listening to the radio, as some poor soul releases an outpouring of his bluest, truest emotion alone. Even as you gaze upon the stars that stare with baleful eye at that infintesimal being which is you, realization takes place. As long as others exist, as long as love exists, as long as you exist-and love-you cannot possess absolute freedom. Your absolute freedom is your loved ones abject slavery. There exists a plane of existence between free and slave; between the extremes exists a mean upon which humanity’s civilization exists. Find it.