We only hate what we don't understand.

“I have this friend, Jake," Mr. Mitchell says, sitting on the edge of his desk. …”

“I stretch my fingers across my belly and glide my hand back and forth, waving s…”

“I breath in and out through my mouth to feel the quiet. In. Out. Over and over.…”

“Maybe that's what being real friends are all about - putting up with the hard l…”