Forrest Brigham
The man who pulled strings to get me into UC Davis at the last minute (as in, submitting my application shortly before classes started) has died. As I do every week, I was reading my home town newspaper online when I got to the obituaries. "Oh!" I said aloud when I saw Forrest Brigham's name listed.I wound up transferring to a different university two years later, but if Forrest Brigham hadn't pushed me to take my full-ride scholarship to somewhere other than the local community college, my life would be different. I doubt I would come home from work and marvel, "Wow, I got paid today to chase after cops, go to a murder trial and then write about it." I may even have stayed in Weed, gotten married, started having kids and still be working at the local grocery store. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's so much more to this world that I'd have never seen.
Thank you, Forrest Brigham.
Posted by Layla at 10:42 PM, October 06, 2004
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