Life in California was easier, even though I had no family there and I was on my own most of the time. I became what they classify as a Soc, and everyone's real nice. No one knows where I came from or why I moved all of a sudden, they just know that I'm not a California native. Jacklyn is the only Greaser I talk to sometimes, but that's maybe once a year. The last I heard was that she and Ponyboy were married and Lucy's baby was a girl. Johnny's new girl is someone named Alyson, and I only remembered her name. But if she's Johnny's now, she must be a pretty sweet girl.
The life I had as a Greaser for so long was a mistake. But it was one of those mistakes you just have to live through or else life isn't worth living. Conformity does make me sick, and I've certainly never conformed. After all, I'm not big on wrong turns. Being a Greaser was the biggest wrong turn of my life, but taking it made me realize that you've gotta take a few, because life is only life when you screw up and fix it up again.
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