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"I had a younger sister, Beni She was killed,members"

"Really?" He sounded shocked

"I wouldn't want to make any of this up, believe me," I said "I have an older brother who is in the army He's in Germany now"

Randall just stared at me for aat the real me

"Do your parents still live there?" he finally asked

"My father's in jail and h?" I ot up and started away

"Hey!" he called and caught up with me "I'm sorry I didn't mean to put you in a bad mood"

"You didn't I was born in a bad mood," I commented

"I would never know it by talking to you No, I mean it," he continued when I stopped to look at him skeptically "When I first started to talk to you at the school, I just thought you were someone different," he added

"Different? Yeah, Randall, I' coldly "That's for sure It didn't take you long to spot that"

"No, I didn't irl I ever met"

"I'm not surprised" Suddenly his white-bread world annoyed me His whole life looked like a soft slide downhill and he had been born with a wonderful talent too Who decided all this? Was there soe who considered you when you were about to be born and with a wave of his hand, he sent you to this family or that, this world or that? What could I or Beni or Roy have done to be given this destiny as opposed to the one Randall had been given?

"You were brought up with a silver spoon in your mouth You just said so yourself," I told hialleries and theaters Your family took you on expensive vacations You were shocked to learn I hadn't even been to New York City!"

"No, I just"

"You knohy I seeood as an alien to you You wanted to talk to ht I was different?