Frank Picone, who I believe now owns Rocky's New York Pizza in Hagerstown, MD, originally opened a pizzeria with his brother Lou Picone in the early 90’s in Huntington, Long Island, New York... right next to Walt Whitman High School. A lot of us, who had absent parents and smoked pot as a way to dissociate from the pain of our reality, cut classes and hung out there. Frank, who was probably about 15 years older, maybe around 30 at the time, became our “friend” often coming out from behind the counter to hang, and supplying weed and alcohol as we stayed long after business hours. Walt Whitman was not a school that shepherded its students to holistic wellbeing or taught its women to be empowered. The greatest reward available there to females- but only those who were skinny and pretty enough, was the prestige of wearing tiny skirts that barely covered their butts and making the cheer team. I had no dad present, and my mom was a mentally and physically ill addict, who was at best in a...