Roomie's story got a little darker before she "received the light".
What I didn't tell ya'll is her mother had passed away about 18 months before she started college (long, drawn-out Breast Cancer -
) (remember, in the 70s, there were really no effective treatments, except mastectomy; if the cancer had spread - - not good . . .)
This probably is was lead to her "drop-out". I-don't-care attitude. It certainly lead to her non-conformist tendencies and self-medicating drug use
)
She ended our freshman year with a B- average (Yea for her!!) and she had a different roommate our sophomore year, someone more like her (non-conformist, hippie-type) BUT she also had a VERY controlling boyfriend that year and didn't return for our junior year
It took her a year to completely recover - - but she was back for my senior year (her junior) and DID graduate.
Today, she's a kindergarten teacher and a grandmother!!
I pray she's happy. (& I think she is . . . I heard all this through the grapevine at our last reunion, which she didn't attend.)
( I guess she's no longer a member of "MY" class.)