“I only hit that man because I couldn’t hit the thing I was really mad at,” Jasper told me, and it made so much sense that even Zach nodded along. “What were you mad at?” I asked. “Life,” he said. “My mother. My brothers and sisters. All my stupid mistakes and useless dreams. Everything I didn’t have and all the things I never would. But mostly I was mad at myself. I’ve been mad at myself for a very long time.”
