Growing Into Change

I remember playing on the playground and eating at my favorite pizza place as if I was still there. The “there” which I speak of is Cresskill, NJ. I lived in this minuscule, little town for the first seventeen years of my life. It was all I knew and it was the only house I had ever lived in. This house was the house that I was raised in and the same house that saw me complete all but my last year of high school. A year later, I had the chance to visit the town that supplied me with so many great memories. While reliving the good times, and the bad ones too, I knew that this would be an experience that would be marked in my life forever.
My tiny, suburban town, just ten minutes from New York City, had the perfect blend of all you could ever want from a town. From the beginning, in Kindergarten, until your senior year of high school, we went through one of the best school systems in the country. Because this town was one mile squared in size, and most families there nev...