My biggest hurdle I remember was that I got a scholarship to one of Michigan' s nicer Fine Arts camps one summer.
I was in my last year of Junior High, but I tested at High School level, so was assigned there.
About a month before going I got braces (teeth).

That made playing at the level I was used to extremely difficult (and painful).
I was also in with other students that were Junior/Seniors in H.S., so socially it was also a miserable experience.

*May have contributed to my distaste for Buddy Rich and my admiration of Victor Borge, both of who were clinicians that year.

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