Thuth be told,I never graduated from college. This is the closest l've ever gottlen to a college graduation today I went to tell you,ther stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The fist story is a bout connecting the dots. I dropped out of reed college after the first bmonths,but then stayed around us a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. so why did i drop out? it started before i was born. my biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student,and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by. College graduates, so ever ything was all set for me to be adopted at.birth by a lawyer and his wife . Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who vere on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking we use got an unexpected out later that my mother had navergraduated from college and that my futhed had never graduated from nigh school.