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You Have To Be Careful Not To Use Anything Too Colloquial Or You Date The Book.

You Put Yourself Out There In The Truest Way You Can And Hope Others Do The Same. You'll Connect Or You Won't, But You Did What You Could. It's Like Playing Ball In Some Way. There Are Guys On The Team, Like Cody, I'd Give My Life For. But You Have To Be Willing To Lay Down Your Life For All Of Them If You Want To Put The Best You On The Field. Every Guy On That Field Has To Believe You'll Bring Nothing Back Off The Field With You.

Censors Can Make A Case For Zero Tolerance In Language. They Can Make The Argument That Since We Don't Allow Our Children To Use That Language In Schools, We Also Shouldn't Give Them Stories In Which It Is Used.

I Figure If Doc Is Right About The Time I Have Left,i Should Wrap Up My Adolescence In The Next Few Days, Get Into My Early Productive Stages About The Third Week Of School, Go Through My Midlife Crisis During Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, Redouble My Efforts At Productivity And Think About My Legacy, Say, Easter, And Start Cashing In My 401(k)s A Couple Weeks Before Memorial Day.

It's A Scary Thing; Moving On. Part Of Me Wishes Life Were More Predictable And Part Of Me Is Excited That It's Not. I Think It's Impossible To Tell The Good Things From The Bad Things While They're Happening.