Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became a fuckup here any more than you want your parents think you're a fuckup.

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“Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”

“I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they…”

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