But on the way, a counselor—Jarvis remembered him clearly, Hershey Johnson—stopped him, took him to another room, sat him down in front of a TV set, and switched it on to some cartoons. He sat down at a desk to do paperwork and left Jarvis watching Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons. Jarvis forgot where he was and started laughing, then looked up and saw Hershey watching him. He felt caught. “Like he caught me being what I was, which was a little kid pretending to be a man. I was swearing and fighting, pushing people and stealing from them—but that wasn’t me. I wasn’t mean. I was
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