About a Boy
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There. You think you look cool, don't you?
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Don't know.
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-Do you think I look cool?
-Yeah, Marcus.

:45:08
-I think you look cool.
-Yeah.

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That's it, you got the walk. That's really cool.
:45:18
Brilliant. High five. Yeah.
:45:21
I was suddenly hit by an extraordinary
rush of well-being.

:45:25
So this is what people meant by a natural high.
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And it only cost £60.
:45:30
I had made an unhappy boy temporarily happy.
:45:33
And there wasn't anything in it for me at all.
:45:35
I didn't even want to shag his mum.
:45:48
Marcus! What happened to your shoes?
:45:50
They stole them.
:46:02
Why would anyone want to steal your shoes?
:46:04
I could see I had to tell the truth.
:46:06
The problem was,
the truth would lead to a lot more questions.

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They were nice ones.
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They were just ordinary brown lace-ups.
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No, they weren't. They were cool new trainers.
:46:16
Where did you get cool new trainers?
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She had loads more questions.
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Will bought them for me.
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Will?
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-The guy who took us to lunch?
-Yeah.

:46:28
He's sort of become my friend.
:46:31
He's sort of become your friend?
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She kept repeating
the last thing I said.

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Except she shouted it.
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I go round to his place after school.
:46:39
You go round to his place after school!
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-You see, he doesn't really have a kid.
-He doesn't really have a kid?

:46:46
Can I play computer games now?
:46:48
Where does he live?
:46:49
He's not there at the moment.
He's out to dinner.

:46:54
Christine had asked me to dinner
for a pep talk.

:46:57
You will end up childless and alone.

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