“Woodrow don’t like to admit that he’s like the rest of us,” Augustus said, seeing the boy’s perplexity. “He ain’t,” Newt said. That was obvious. The Captain never behaved like other people. “He ain’t, that’s true,” Augustus said. “But he had a chance to be once. He turned his back on it, and now he ain’t about to admit that he made the wrong choice. He’d as soon kill himself. He’s got to keep trying to be the way he thinks he is, and he’s got to make out that he was always that way—it’s why he ain’t owned up to being your pa.”
