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I closed my eyes and did the unimaginable. I prayed for a policeman, prayed to be pulled over and arrested for grand theft auto, anything to put an end to this. Kids who were far stupider than I but who behaved themselves, studied, did their homework, had never gone to school drunk or stoned, who’d never been suspended, were preparing to head off to college in a few weeks while I, local drunkard, gas jockey, ne’er-do-well, one of the ones the teachers and counselors shook their heads and frowned about, a potentially promising but somehow doomed, damned, or in certain immeasurable but important ways dumb, student was being chauffeured toward my death by a sweaty alcoholic with no driver’s license and little reason to live.
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