um, sorry to intrude... But THE Alan Dean Foster? Or just a fan? I'm a fan! Huge!

Ninth grade, new school. A crush that went to 11 on a boy around the corner that hung out and watched Steven Seagal movies with me, but also (as is so often the case) tortured me... threw my shoe out of the bus window, dumped a bag of microwave popcorn on my floor, called me "concave" at least once while playing D&D.…