The professional basketball player was much taller anyone else in the room. everyone kept staring at him in awe me. you see, i'm way thinking being tall is something unusual. i've been just over seven feet tall since i was sixteen years old. once, when i was a little kid, i tried balancing a weight on my head. i walked around for an hour to see if it would get me to stop growing. it had no . i still managed to grow a full six inches that year!