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Peter Oswald was cool. I met him when we were both six and a half, on the first day of elementary school, and we stayed together for the next six years. He wasn’t one of my true muckers, like Stevie, Miles, Mike, and Tim were. He didn’t come by my house for mammoth Space Invader sessions, didn’t play on sports teams with us. And yet I always honored him with a deep respect. I might even have been a little intimidated by him.
It was his little acts of rebellion that first drew me to him. While I was busy trying to make myself invisible at school, he would deliberately commit small infractions to ...
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