Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
Scott WesterfeldHigh school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
Scott WesterfeldWhat did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
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