"You know something's wrong when you start causing yourself pain and enjoying it."

He likes to suggest that he was the resident hard-man at school. He likes telling people that he was expelled. But it's not true. Most of the other kids used to tease him until he bled: I liked the one about his brother being some kind of cheap self-assembly robot: a waddling, helpless dependent, always one step behind and calling out Dean's name in a cheap-speaker voice.

So the best year's of Dean's youth had been spent with that thing trundling behind him, until Dean grew up enough to out-run him.

He's never forgive me for enjoying that one. I guess he simply hasn't gotten around to persecuting the rest of our year yet.

Rollo Kim.