“I thought we were friends.” “That’s funny,” I said. “I thought you were decent.”
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It was a nice thought, but we arrived safely at the beach a minute later.
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As the bus rattled down a steep canyon road in the Palisades toward the ocean, I thought, Hey, maybe the brakes won’t work and the bus will crash and we’ll all die.
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“Like this,” he said and got behind me and put his arm around mine so he could guide me through the motion.
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And ninth grade is like . . . like some futuristic prison state where everyone’s fighting to survive. And if I stand out like some kind of dork, I’m doomed.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’”