Steely Slammer- I reread my post and I can understand your reaction to "in a seemingly challenging environment that turns out so many misguided youth"; particularly since it was specifically pointed at Aberdeen. For not appropriately mentioning that there are also many good youth, like Andy, that come from good parents in that area, please pardon me- you are right to point that out. But I stand by my statement that most of these kids do grow up in challenging situations in Aberdeen, as they do in many areas of the NW. Thus Andy is an inspiration and I hope he becomes a positive influence on as many youth as possible; and that was the heart of my message.- Also, I think I could have come up with a better example of an "Aberdeen take" than Kurt Cobain. While some of the things he publicly agonized over about growing up in Aberdeen had some credence, I think his deamons were likely intrinsic & would have surfaced from most environments he could have come from (seems he couldn't even handle them with financial security on the banks of Lake Washington- wonder if he went fishing there; I doubt it). Anyway, back to other fishing subjects. - Steve



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