Part 1: So that you won't have to read the whole story in one sitting

Let me start by saying that the new movie "Gran Torino" made my top five best movies I've ever seen.

That said, some history about the white knight.

I have grown up most of my life as a small kid. Small as in not very tall.... at all. However, since I was in 2nd grade, I was athletic to the max; I played football and soccer year-round and loved it. But then, I was a chubby, fat kid and height and fat didn't matter back then, so those were good times. Playing time never depended on stature, just whether you were there or not.

As time went on, I stayed the same height and most people passed me. Nevertheless, I still played sports constantly; soccer ended (which now I know was a mistake because I have just discovered while playing with my Hispanic friends that I might be a little talented white boy), but I kept playing football and started playing tennis. Middle school football still didn't depend on how tall you were, just how smart you were and whether you were afraid or not to get dirty and take a hit. Sports were good, no worries.

High school sports, now everyone started developing major muscles, growing taller and physically getting so much "better" than I was. Granted, I was keeping myself in shape and lifting weights for football, but never really could measure up to my homies' ability to gain muscle, or to look good doing it. But I tried and I loved football with everything.