![]() ![]() I might have asked aquestion about Jesus Christ Superstar, except that 1. Marie did lights,\" said Will.\"That's cool.\" I nodded knowingly, and that about exhausted our conversational topics. Said cavalry consistedof exactly two people: Marie Lawson, a tiny blonde with rectangular glasses, and her chunky (to put it charitably)boyfriend, Will.\"Hey, Miles,\" Marie said as she sat down.\"Hey,\" I said.\"How was your summer?\" Will asked.\"Okay. and patiently awaited the arrival of the Good-bye to Miles Cavalry. ![]() She bought two dozen champagne poppers andplaced them around the edge of our coffee table.And when that final Friday came, when my packing was mostly done, she sat with my dad and me on the living-room couch at 4:56p.m. ![]() She festooned our livingroom in green and yellow streamers, the colors of my new school. She cooked a small mountain of artichoke dip. Still, my mother persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept mypopularity secret from her all these years. ![]() Although I was more or less forced to invite all my \"school friends,\" i.e.,the ragtag bunch of drama people and English geeks I sat with by social necessity in the cavernous cafeteria of mypublic school, I knew they wouldn't come. To say that I had low expectations would be tounderestimate the matter dramatically. Looking for alaska beforeone hundred thirty-six days beforethe week beforeI left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, mymother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. ![]()
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