Can you name people who made a huge, positive impression on you growing up?

I can.

I’ve been thinking a lot about those people, and it hit me how odd is that those who did make such a big positive impression are not a part of my life now—nor have they been for a long time. If I do talk to them, I can tell they have no idea how much they really meant to me. Or how much I really do think about them.

Without these people coming into my life when they did, I wouldn’t be who I am or where I am. Th...