Willingly Wayward

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  • Blayke McClure sits on the back of a friend’s half-wrecked pick-up truck on September 28, 2011 in Clinton’s city square. Students of Clinton High School almost religiously hang in the square year-round as their friends drive laps and honk their horns.

  • McClure pretends that he is going to fight a friend after exchanging joking remarks on Clinton’s uptown square on Sep. 28, 2011.

  • Emily Brown, a mentor of McClure's, provides him with some hard-handed advice at El Camino Real, a local Mexican restaurant on Sep. 28, 2011 in Clinton, Mo. McClure and Brown went to dinner to catch up and to talk out some of McClure's recent dramas and troubles.

  • McClure takes a break during one of his welding courses at Clinton Technical School on September 29 2011. McClure plans on either going into business with his dad welding, or possibly joining the military in hopes of seeing the world.

  • Shelby Franklin, 17, looks for attention from her boyfriend, Blayke McClure, during a senior assembly on September 30, 2011 at Clinton High School. Though the two have only been dating since this past summer, they take their relationship very seriously.

  • Blayke McClure and Shelby Franklin pass a poem a friend wrote on the leaf of a Ficus, or Rubber Tree, on May 29, 2011 at Clinton High School. The poem began “Here I sit in silent bliss, listening to the sound of piss…”

  • Since McClure and Franklin only have one class together, they do their very best to make the most of the time they have together during school.

  • Blayke McClure, 18, gets his hair shampooed and washed after a haircut in uptown Clinton, MO. on Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011. McClure is especially fond of his hairdresser, and is always excited to get his hair cut.