Ponyboy, What Happened?

I just finished watching a TV movie, "A Gunfighter's Pledge", I think was the name. C. Thomas Howell was one of the main characters. If I hadn't seen his name in the credits I wouldn't have recognized him. He has not aged gracefully at all. On the other hand, Luke Perry, who was also in the movie, has really come into his own since the Dylan McKay days. He has finally shaken off that teenaged punk look and has actually grown up into a pretty decent-looking actor. I think it's interesting to see how people age. When I go back to Starmount to a ball game or something I usually will see some people that I haven't seen since high school. The guys who were so cute back then are such rednecks now - beer bellies and all. It's like an opposite thing. The nerdy guys have actually grown up to be pretty handsome and seem to take better care of themselves. And the girls/women. Most of us have also gained a lot of weight, but there was this one girl at one of our reunions a few years ago that was always really heavy in school, and now she's got the body of a model. It's just strange.