Before His Time
Earl Briggs had to grow up faster than some of his classmates at St. James High School. He moved out of his parent’s home when he was 16. Things were too chaotic around there — too much drinking and too much drama, he says. He moved into an apartment with a friend and got a job at McDonald’s to pay the rent. Earl is now a senior with one foot still in his youth, and the other firmly planted in the adult world.
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