The Raggedy Boy
He looked like a hopeless wreck of a boy, but underneath there was so much more…
Richie was sitting alone in the atrium, as he always did, doing homework. He was dressed, as he always was, in rag-bag clothes: a shapeless, purplish shirt, battered, stained slacks that were a couple of inches too short, and an old leather belt. His hair was a mess of waves and uncombed snarls. He looked like a hopeless wreck of a boy. And yet, Richie was the complete package. In his senior year of high school, he was un...