I was in a Talented and Gifted program in the Midwest called TAG. The same year I entered the program, I had an interview with unnamed individuals, a man and a woman if I recall, who took me to an empty classroom and asked me several questions about what I thought of the US government and if I would ever consider working for the government. I told them - at age 12 - that I was a communist and I would probably work against the government instead of for it because the government was corrupt, etc. They only sat with me for a few minutes then told me, "Well, you won't remember this anyway." And I didn't really remember it very well for years. It stayed with me but seemed kind of blurry. In my early forties it fully surfaced. It is a very vivid memory.

Not long after this interview, someone, I never learned who, spray-painted, in huge letters on an old abandoned storage tank on the way into town, the route all the school buses took to school, "LARS IS A NERD". There were other strange occurrences as well but just as much speculation and it would take too long to go into.

I do believe that they were "TAGging" students with this program. The other boy who always went to these classes with me ended up talking some time later about how he was possibly going to get into MIT which is a well known government affiliated university. I wonder if he answered the questions in the interview differently than I did. I'll probably never know in this life.