

When the bus was crossing a bridge close to the school, it hit a patch of ice and slide onto the opposite side of the road where a truck hit the back.

They were coming back from a field trip to a museum and he and Eddie were sitting in back talking. When he was twelve, Eddie died in a bus accident. One day in the summer, he went too close to an opened fire hydrant and was pushed back by the water, scaring him. His grandfather would often hold training sessions in the winter when he visited Chicago, one exercise involved the attendants run in the sand along Lake Michigan. They are nearly caught but escaped when the prank went off dowsing the cafeteria and supposedly going down the street to stop a fight in the parking lot of a burger restaurant. Tristan said his grandmother told him the stories and he asked if he could write them down and the two became fast friends.Īt one point, he and Eddie broke into school to create a soda explosion with soda and pop rocks. One day when he was reading a superhero graphic novel, a boy came up to him and started saying the hero he was reading about was dumb and introduced himself as Eddie Garvey and told him the real superheroes were folk heroes.

In seventh grade, Tristan would often eat lunch in school library and built up a good relationship with the librarian Mrs. He was embarrassed explaining everything to his parents. One time, he tripped when exiting his apartment and broke through his neighbor's door and the police were called. He was fearful he would forget everything and started writing things down in journals. His parents told her she had Alzheimer's and explained the disease to him. When he was eight, his parents took him to visit his mother's old boss, which talked like she was still working. In the summers he would go running in the park and in the winter he would swim laps in the pool at the community center. His father would constantly take him outside to train in boxing, the Strong family tradition. Tristan was born to Alvin Strong and Jessica Strong and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
