[Lissa]

He's been with the fire dept for 3 yrs, but he knows a lot more than many of his peers about it all because his dad became a firefighter just after he was born and is a Shift Commander in Austin, TX, which basically means he's in charge of AFD every three days...

I don't think it would bother him all that much if it didn't happen so often, but just tonight in his Fire Science class he said he got in the fire dept when he was 16 and they were like, Oh so you've been doing this for about 10 years already? It's like every other day he's got a new story about people being shocked that he's a lot younger than he looks.

I don't have a problem with it, it actually makes me feel better cause I'm actually older than him and for some reason I'm a tad self conscious about that. But it happens so often and when people think he's so much older than he is, it's like he's afraid people will think he's in his 40s when he hits 25, and it bothers him, and I wish I could do more than just say I love him and that even though so many other people think it I don't think he looks that old.