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1 i aint no valedictorian. ill give you that. but im certainly not the loser my step-father johnnie likes to think i am, either. mr. oh-so-famous local johnnie pipehead of \johnnie on the spot plumbing.\ (real clever name, huh?) just because he only took the requisite twelve years to make it through school and graduate from his alma mater, and i took slightly longer, that doesnt make me a loser. so what if i took \the road less traveled by\ and added a one-year, scenic detour to my journey--thanks to algebra, physical science, and well...latin. did i mention chemistry? lets just say i liked latin but latin didnt much care for me. just because i took thirteen years in all to get out of melancholy high with a diploma doesnt make me some loser. being nothing at all, now that would make me a loser.

2 i am something. but what i am, and what ill be, are two countries at war at present. battles, ive had them. many battles. literal ones...figurative ones...too many. figurative language...see there? at least i did learn a few somethings in mr. js english class.

3 i couldve been the valedictorian. of somewhere. of some school that had a bunch of unmotivated kids like me. then, maybe i would have...

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