>“About you,” Alan replied, “you said tonight that you wanted to help Mike because it seemed interesting, which was a… well, an interesting word choice. Most of the teachers that end up at our school have pretty much given up on being the ‘oh-captain-my-captain’ for some lost cause. But you seem to do this serially. Was Isabella just an interesting project, too?”

“You keep calling him a lost cause,” I said, throwing the cigarette butt to the ground, “Do you have something against him personally?”

“I knew people like Mike when I was his age,” Alan said, “and people like him…”

“From what I understand,” I interrupted, “you were like him when you were his age. And look how you tur...

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