Mark Fisher Niehuis, age 18, Queen Creek, AZ, Kendall Prall,
age 17, Tucson, AZ, August 12, 2002 Robin Bowman

Mark Fisher Niehuis, age 18 Last year in a rodeo I got knocked out, and it really messed with a chemical imbalance in my head and made me very angry at some times, or very sad, and I have no control over anything. It really hurt my relationship with my girlfriend, Kendall, and even with my parents… Kendall Prall, age 17 Probably the toughest thing about being a teenager is trying to juggle everything… to get into a good school you’re supposed to volunteer and have a job and do all this stuff, and all I want to do is rodeo! … Obviously my parents haven’t ever kept me from anything I need, and so everyone calls me “spoiled rich girl” and tells me I only do things good because my parents buy me nice horses…It makes me feel horrible! I can’t ever accomplish anything on my own, it’s all ‘cause my daddy has money.