When I was 10 years old, I was in gym class playing capture the flag. During the game, I had a head-on collision with a girl who was taller than I was. Her teeth went into my forehead and her chin into my nose. My pediatrician told my parents I was bruised but nothing was broken. I didn’t think about it for years.
Fast forward to my senior year of high school, 2007. That was the year I s...