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1968,
I was twelve years old.

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A lot happened that year.

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Dennis McLain won 31 games,
The Mod Squad hit the air,

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and I graduated from Hillcrest Elementary
and entered junior high school...

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but we'll get to that.

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There's no pretty way to put this:
I grew up in the suburbs.

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I guess most people
think of the suburb

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as a place with all the
disadvantages of the city,

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and none of the advantages
of the country, and vice versa.

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But, in a way, those really were the
wonder years for us there in the suburbs.

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It was kind of a golden age for kids.

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There, that's me.

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Kevin Arnold, 1968,
the summer before junior high school.

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And I don't mind saying
I was a pretty fair little athlete.

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It was a pretty hard pass.

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Well, yeah, I think it had
sort of a reverse-spin on it...

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Come on Kevin,
stop gabbing with your girlfriend.

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She's not my girlfriend!

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This was true,
Winnie Cooper was not my girlfriend.

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When we were very little we used to go
down to Harper's Woods and catch fireflies

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but we really hadn't hung out at all
together since we were about nine.

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Uh-oh, think girlfriend's mad at you?

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Maybe you'd better go
give her a big French kiss.

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Shut up, Wayne!

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Hey girls, come on over here. Kevin's
gonna show you what a French kiss is.

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- Buttface.
- What did you say?

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Nothing.

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This is the way most of my conversations
with my brother Wayne ended.

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Apparently he just deeply regretted
the fact that I had been born,

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and he wanted me to feel the same way.

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Come on Wayne, let him up!

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I'm sorry Paul, this is a family matter.

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That was my best friend, Paul Pfeiffer.

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Paul was allergic to everything.

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Wayne used to say he was even
allergic to his own snot.

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Wayne was a really funny guy.

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Hey Wayne, knock it off
before I do the same thing to you.

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Winnie's brother, Brian Cooper.

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He was nineteen
and for us he defined 'cool'.

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He had this really great '59 El Camino,
didn't run of course, but

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he was always out there working on it,
sweaty, grease all over his hands...

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what a guy!

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That June he got drafted
and packed off to Vietnam.

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But his car was still out front

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up on blocks as kind of a reminder of
who really ran things on our street.

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Mom, can Paul stay for dinner?

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- Sure, if his mom knows.

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What are you having?

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- What are we having?
- Meat loaf.

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I'm allergic to it.

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- What else?
- Salad.

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- When's dad coming home?
- Any minute.

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And between the traffic and his job
he's liable to be very tense

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so let's not make him crazy.

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- He's always tense.
- That's true.

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He's always tense
but he's not crazy yet,

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so let's try to maintain
that sense of equilibrium.

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- Hi hon. How's traffic?
- Traffic's traffic.

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Dad had a Spartan sense of language.

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Karen, honey, you said you were gonna
come home early and help me with dinner.

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Peace mom, okay?

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Peace is fine, but you said
you were gonna help me with dinner.

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You have so much bad karma in your life,
you know that mom?

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- I'd be careful if I were you.
- Thank you, I'll keep an eye out.

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In the meantime, when your father
gets back try not to make him crazy.

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Hi, Paul.

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Dad always said "hi" to our friends,

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but it was like he had this
understanding with the family

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he worked hard for us,
he provided for us,

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and he certainly didn't want to
have to talk to us on top of that.

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My approach was to not make
any sudden moves or sounds

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until he'd finished
that first vodka tonic

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and hope that nobody else did anything
that might upset him too much before then.

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I'm gonna get some birth-control pills.
I thought you should know..

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I didn't hear what I just heard.

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And thats pretty much
the way that summer went.

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I guess it was my last summer
of pure unadulterated childhood.

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This was it.
The last night of summer.

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- Holy cow!
- Try not to drool on it, ok.

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If Karen finds out we have this,
she'll kill me.

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Paul, your mother called.
She wants you to come home right away.

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- OK.

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- Well, I guess I see you at bus-stop.
- Yeah!

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Last night I had a dream that

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when I got to school
I realized I had no clothes on.

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If you're naked when you get
to bus-stop, I'll tell ya.

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Thanks.

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Do you know what you're going to wear?

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Paul, I have no idea.

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Actually, I had been planning my
wardrobe for about six weeks.

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You're not gonna wear
that to school are you?

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No mom, I got a job as a male model.

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Don't worry about it,
you look fine.

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Let me see our class
schedule one more time.

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No.

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He was gonna have to get a grip on himself.
This was the junior high bus stop.

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And if we were gonna hold
our own with the older kids

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we were gonna have to act mature.

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We seemed to have something
of a height disadvantage,

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but we did out best to fit in.

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Hooth that?

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What an incredible stroke
of luck, a new kid.

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A helpless waif would be
even more lost than we were,

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a helpless waif in fishnet
tights and gogo boots.

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Hi Kevin.
Hi Paul.

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- Winnie Cooper?
- Gwendolyn.

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I don't want to be called Winnie anymore,
my real name is Gwendolyn.

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Well, there was no question now,
we were entering uncharted territory.

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Even the familiar was cloaked
in the vestments of the devil.

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Junior high school
was a whole new ball of wax.

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Like about half the schools
in the country that year

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my school was being renamed
Robert F. Kennedy Junior High.

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As we approached those
doors for the first time,

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we felt we were approaching
the portals of manhood.

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Home Room.

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I sat between Eric Antonio
and Gail Aslanian.

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They had met on the bus and
had taken a liking to each other.

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- I love you.
- I love you too.

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And I love you both, but
I'm having a little trouble breathing here.

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I was about to have
my first sexual experience,

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and I wasn't even one
of the principal players.

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Kevin Arnold,
you're Wayne's brother, aren't you?

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Well, well according to my mother,
yes. But my own theory is...

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You've got a tough
row to hoe young man.

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A tough road to hoe.

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Yes.

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The first major accessory of
adulthood, our own lockers.

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I couldn't believe my good fortune.
Two lockers down from mine

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was Debbie Ackerman, one of the
prime knockouts of the seventh grade.

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There was only one problem.

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Charles Manson had
the locker between us.

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A seventh grader with a beard

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this wasn't junior high school,
it was a freak show.

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I hoped none of the
girls would have beards.

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Whats you locker combination?

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Well, I appreciate your asking,

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but actually they told us
we're not supposed to tell anyone.

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Here you go.

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If anyone finds out about these...

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...I'll know who told.

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Who?

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It was my only shot.
I thought maybe I could trick him...

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You...You! That's who!

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Oh, right.

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Lunch, at last, something
I figured even I couldn't screw up.

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- Where do you want to sit?
- Anywhere. Let's just sit here.

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A suburban junior high school
cafeteria is like a microcosm of the world.

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The goal is to protect yourself,
and safety comes in groups.

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You have your cool kids,

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you have your smart kids,

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you have your greasers,

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and in those days, of course,
you had your hippies.

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In a fact in junior high school,
who you are is defined

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less by who you are than by
who's the person sitting next to you.

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...a sobering thought.

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Try to look like you're having fun.

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Hi. Do you guys mind if I sit with you?

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Sure, Winnie.

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We were on our way.
Our group was forming.

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And Winnie, I mean, Gwendolyn,
was not chop liver.

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Who knows, maybe we
even had an outside chance

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to become the cool
seventh grade group,

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if we could just remain inconspicuous
until we picked up a few more members.

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Hey Steve, it looks like my baby brother
and his girlfriend have found each other.

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- She's not my girlfriend.
- He thinks you are so cute.

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I don't think she's cute.

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He wants to give you a big...
wet... kiss.

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He told me.

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You liar, I never said that!

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I don't want to kiss her,
I don't even like her!

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Young man.

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What does that sign say?

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You take that apple through that door
and you're asking for detention.

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Young man!

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I think we have a problem.

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He was right, there was a problem.

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- Oh yeah, the apple.
- That's right, the apple.

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- You wanted it inside the cafeteria.
- That's right.

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- And now it's outside the cafeteria.
- That's right.

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Conversation was getting stale.
I asked myself

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"Now, what would a guy like
Brian Cooper do in this situation?".

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If you want, I could...

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I could get that.

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Well, Kevin, perhaps we should
start by asking you to explain

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what in god's name moved
you to do what you did.

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I wanted to tell them
that Wayne embarrassed me,

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that the other kids were laughing,

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that Mr. Diperna had played
power games with me,

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that Winnie had seen
the whole thing and

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that she'd been wearing pink
fishnets and gogo boots.

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I don't know.

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"I don't know?" That's all you have to say?
"I don't know?"

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Kevin, the question is,

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what did you hope to achieve by
throwing an apple into a cafeteria?

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No butthead, the question is why do you
have a brain the size of a baby pea?

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- Kevin?
Mr. Diperna just asked you a question.

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What did you hope to achieve by
throwing that apple into the cafeteria?

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'World peace.'
- Kevin!?

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Nothing.

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Well, Kevin, that's exactly what
you did achieve, nothing.

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Now, I'm going to let you go
without any further punishment.

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But I want you to know that
I'll be keeping my eye on you.

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Do you understand that?

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Kevin? Do you understand that?

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Yes.

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- I'd like to take him home now.

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In my twelve and a half years,
my father had never struck me.

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But he'd given Wayne
a beating, twice,

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and I recognized that
glazed look in his eyes.

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Besides, maybe I deserved it.

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There really is no good excuse
for hurling food around the cafeteria.

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He probably figured that if
he laid down the law now I'd stay in line,

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and he was probably right.
Anyway, I could take the pain.

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I decided I'd just shut my eyes
and imagine it was Wayne.

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Come on, inside.

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And then it happened,

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I think we were about
halfway to the front porch.

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Brian Cooper was killed.

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Oh my god. When did they find out?

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I'm gonna call Evelyn and
see if there's anything I can do.

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Oh my god, poor Evelyn...

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That night I decided
to go for a walk.

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The days were still
long and back then

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kids could still go
for walks at dusk

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without the fear of
ending up on a milk cartoon.

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I went down to the big climbing
tree in Harper's Woods.

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I didn't admit it to
myself until years later

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but in my mind was the shadow of
a thought that Winnie might be there.

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She was sort of hugging herself,
and rocking slowly back and forth.

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There was a bit of a chill in the air
and she didn't have a sweater.

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For a minute
I was scared to approach her.

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I didn't know what to say.
I had the strangest feeling.

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It was impossible for me to
believe that Brian was dead.

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I'm sorry, about Brian,

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and I'm sorry about what I said today.

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It wasn't true.

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I know.

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It was the first kiss for both of us.

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We never really talked
about it afterward.

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But I think about the events
of that day again and again.

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And somehow I know
that Winnie does too,

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whenever some blowhard starts talking
about the anonymity of the suburbs

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or the mindlessness of the TV generation.

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Because we know that inside
each one of those identical boxes,

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with its Dodge parked out front
and its white bread on the table

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and its TV set glowing blue
in the falling dusk,

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there were people with stories,

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there were families bound together
in the pain and the struggle of love.

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There where moments that
made us cry with laughter,

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and there were moments,

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like that one,
of sorrow and wonder.

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