Yes, I have in my life. Outrightly, I had taken money from my parents as a kid, as well as that I had stolen books in high school with the idea that I didn't feel I was getting enough of a proper education and that school was boring and I liked to learn though many teachers just seemed to be concerned about getting their paychecks and not really educating the students. (My parent's were/are taxpayers, damn it!) I felt a little guilty after realizing after the fact that I had taken two books from my English teacher's room once, one being a book of second-consciousness poetry (News of the Universe) and the other a poetry book she had borrowed from the library (Love is Like the Lion's Tooth). It must run in the family because I also have a copy of a book of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry that my aunt took out of the same school library in about 1975 and never returned. I still have all three of them. That News of the Universe book I won't give up though, as it contains my absolute favorite poem in the entire world.


Who is someone's opinion that you respect, why, and do you think that person would be shocked to know that fact?