Chapter 20

By the time Marko had fetched the first aid kit and they had all sat down to start patching the pieces of the broken cell phone back together, Jimmy was wondering why he had been so afraid in the past of showing his scars to other people.  After the initial shock of seeing them, both Scott and Marko had carried on normally, as if there was nothing interesting to see anymore.  Jimmy marveled at the ability of young people like himself to look past such deformities in a short period of time and he wished most grown-ups could learn to do the same.  Even some doctors who saw the scars on his back for the first time found it difficult to hide their shock – and, sometimes, disgust.  Kids were different though, Jimmy could see that now.  He...

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