You make a good point. To further compound it, a lot of gifted students have other issues/concerns/challenges that more typical kids don’t have. So there’s and interesting juxtaposition between learning aptitude and other skills.

Just want to point out that kids are (generally) decidedly not stupid; they are inexperienced. The distinction is big.

Yeah. His story is wild too. At some point he built a bar/venue on the property —so there were all kinds of wild parties with hundreds of people going on.
One of his victims managed to stab him and escape with several knife wounds in her gut. They apparently ended up at the same hospital, but some how no one really looked into her claims.
He had a lady friend that lived with him for a while. She would help him pick up women—help convince them it was safe to go back to his place.
It got to where the local sex workers wouldn’t go with him anymore because so many of their coworkers went missing that they instituted a system to keep track of one another. They kind of knew that it was him.

I wonder why this post had to turn into an argument instead of something that just made a person feel warm and fuzzy all th way down to their darkest spines?

Yeah. There are some sources that suggest red will make you feel hungry.

Yes! We have a place where we’ve been building sort of semi permanent camp. It’s a perfect spot near the top of a rise, overlooking a lake, surrounded by Laurel (evergreen). In the summer it has blueberries. Enough nearby trees for hammocks but not so many to prevent a good fire pit. It’s a lot of fun, and enough of a hike to be away from the world but not so far that you can’t make a day trip.

Looks beautiful there.
I love the woods. And whenever I try to decide which woods I love best, i see some other woods and remember I just love them all.

In what part of the world do you live?