Tom Swift

Finding yourself when the world sees you as someone else from before you reached puberty.

How grandly lucky am I that I get the chance to learn about myself, grow, remember, reflect, doubt, try, fail, progress?

Like other enslaved people in the 19th century, Frederick Douglass was forbidden from learning his ABCs. He did something radical: he learned them anyway.

What might we take from a famous line from literature 265 years after it was written?