Here is a little known fact about me. I have a somewhat photographic memory. It's bizarre and unsettling in some ways. In other ways it comes in handy. Mostly it's bizarre and unsettling. Since having children, some of those memory cells have either died off or become more concentrated on keeping my children alive in spite of having me as their mother, but every so often this quality pops up. My specialty is people. One year I worked as a counselor at a brand new junior high school. My assignment was all of the 8th grade students and one third of the 7th grade students. In all, I had approximately 600 students. A few of them caught on that I knew their names. All of them. What they didn't know is that I knew their quirks. Those are the things that stick with me. I'll eventually forget their names but I never forget their stories. Kind of like a savant only cute. Alecia had school anxiety and cried every day in my office for the first month. She also liked denim and sun...