Not having a car or money for airfare, I bought a bus ticket, grabbed my backpack with a change of clothes and was off across country on a 2 day bus adventure. My parents asked me to come quickly as his condition worsened.
When I was in my freshman year in college, my grandfather fell ill and had to be hospitalized. Where as most guys my age had body hair, my chest and legs were almost hairless and as smooth as any girl's.
I was of short stature with very pale white skin and on the thin side. It wasn't that I was unattractive, it was that I was such a geek and girls stayed away in droves, preferring the jocks. I had been on one 'blind date' of sorts and it had been a total disaster.
I didn't start masturbating until I was nearly 18 and was afraid to ask a girl out for fear of rejection. I was a late bloomer when I was a kid, a total nerd.