“Maybe some people aren’t meant to have, you know, a great life. I guess that’s that way it rolls.” “Don’t you ever talk that talk around me. You hear that, Fito? YOU. ARE. GOING. TO. HAVE. A. GREAT. LIFE.” “Never had no friends like you,” he said. “Never had that.” And then he started bawling like a baby, fell to his knees and bowed his head, and just bawled. I picked him up gently, not wanting to hurt his broken hand. He leaned on my shoulder and after a while stopped crying. “Hey,” I whispered, “people are gonna think I’m gay.” He laughed. I’m glad he laughed.
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