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on the first day of school my 8th grade year (august 16th, 1998), i (drew ryan) walked into my first period 8th grade algebra class and sat down in front of a brown-haired kid wearing a 311 t-shirt. my first thought was "i think we're going to become pretty good friends." as the year progressed, fletch and i hung out all throughout the school day and into the weekends where we'd stay up as late as we could friday night, wake up saturday and play music in my garage until my mom yelled at us to stop. eventually, we developed a name (pipe-down) and continued to play our instruments very poorly. i had just got a drumset that year in school, and fletch was still new at the guitar, but nothing was more fun than to poorly cover blink-182 and marvelous 3 songs. high school comes around and fletch moves off to cordova, and i stayed back in bartlett. fletch met some new friends; of these friends was a guy named dustin prude. dustin invited us to a bible study led by an upperc...