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  1. Sep 2018
    1. deliberately, until I pried the textbook out of his hands, saying, "I'll try to figure it out some more by myself."

      Had to teach himself at home because his parents wasn't familiar with the education system which made him frustrated.

    2. It is myself (as a boy) I see as she faces me now ( a man in my thirties).

      He see's as an adult now that he was similar to that young girl.

  2. Aug 2018
    1. they were outsiders, video-game enthusi-asts, members of the Trench Coat Mafia, neo-Nazis, two boys who couldn't tell their alcohol-fueled dreams from reality, a leader and a follower, a smart kid and a loser, specimens of a middle-class value system in crisis, proof of the need for stricter gun-control laws

      Sparked the whole gun violence issues and made the government want to crack down on gun laws.