Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.
John BarnesTag: small-town farmers
So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.
John BarnesThere's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.
John BarnesI wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?
John BarnesI think everyone always has time to suffer.
John BarnesMarti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.
John BarnesI guess when life hands you lemons, chop 'em up and get lemonade; when life hands you cats, chop 'em up and get pussy.
John BarnesBut I'd been raised pure Ohio: the Zeroth Commandment was Thou Shalt Not Be Any Trouble to Anybody Ever.
John BarnesBy noon everyone had heard that I had spent the night with Marti in a hotel room and when the cops came by, with our mothers, I had asked for time to get dressed. It was also all over the school that I had deliberately provoked Gratz and lived to tell of it, and that Paul had knocked me flat. And on top of that, Spooky Darla had given me a thermonuclear kiss in public.
No getting away from it: I was now Public Madman Number One.
Tag: tales-of-the-madman-underground
Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.
John BarnesTag: pain importance mattering
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