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Tommy, more than anything, was lonely.
On the first day of high school, he walked through the double doors of the ugly glass and concrete block in Boyle Heights and knew, with a certainty he'd never had before in his life, that he would hate every second of it.
The other kids didn't like him very much – Piggy Kinard, they sometimes called him – because he was tall and large and always smelled of cigarettes, as if the smoke had stitched itself into the very seams of his clothing.
Tommy would later not remember which teacher had told his parents about the name-calling, would only remember the faint look of disgust on his father's face and the rough hand in the nape of his neck.
“Respect is something that is earned,” he told Tommy.***
Tommy begins. Then, Tommy begins again. And again. And again. And again.
Series
- Part 2 of We Are Not Nothing