Ryan Atwood spent his whole life as a statistic.
When he was five and entering kindergarten he was one in ten children who couldn't read, recognize any letters or count.
When he was eight he became one in fifty children who is physically abused at home.
When he was ten he was one in one hundred children who have been arrested before they reach puberty.
When he was twelve he was one in five hundred children who have sex before they reach thirteen.
When he was fourteen he was one in two thousand children who have a parent in jail.
When he was fifteen he became one in six thousand children who have been convicted of a felony.
But when he was sixteen things changed.
He became one in twenty thousand unprivileged children who are saved from the life of poverty and crime and given a second chance.
When he was seventeen and had done something to make Sandy Cohen particularly proud of him he was patted on the back lovingly and became Sandy Cohen's 'one in a million'.
And when he graduated from high school at eighteen he was Harbor High's two of one hundred twenty five in the graduating class of 2005.
Life is full of statistics when you're Ryan Atwood.