they don't have much in common but that's okay and he's almost 24 so would have been a year or so behind her in school? he's from a middle class family born in georgia to a preacher and his wife, one of 5 kids, a former town football hero who was supposed to get scouted/become famous and instead flopped, didn't go to college, became a bartender and failed everybody's expectations. he's departed from his golden boy image quite a bit and is just trying to figure out life post-popularity and work through his angst