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Benign Wade Jefferson Hook sat on a pink and purple tie-dyed bean bag chair in the center of the living room. It was the perfect position to mindlessly indulge in mid-day television drama. He lived in a two bedroom, one ½ bath suburban apartment in the lifeless town of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. The apartment was ripe with indifference. Ragged, thrashed designer clothing was scattered across the hard wood living room floor. The cabinets were empty, but only because every dish Wade owned was on t...

6/15/06 There is one undeniable method to shatter the entire world of an overweight high school junior. When I found out that swimming was a requirement of graduation, there was an immediate emergency. There was no feasible way that anyone on the planet could force me to go shirtless in front of my classmates. It wasn’t just boys in my class. That still would have sucked, but abuse from guys I could have dealt with. What kind of luck would that be anyway? Not the kind I was used to. There wer...