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        Life is an interesting journey, full of people. There are other things of course, but they’re less important, or less interesting, or lame, or so mysterious, terrifying and incomprehensible, that they are too often, though justifiably, overlooked. This is a story about none of them. This is a story about a boy and his singular journey. In order to understand anything in life about something other than yourself you must first understand about those things that are not. Not about something other than yourself that is. That is to say, that you must understand things that are not about something other than yourself. You must understand you. You must get to know you. You must become you. That is not to say that you should ever settle for or identify yourself by what you are, but what you wish to become. So, in an attempt to stimulate self evaluation, please consider the following deep philosophical questions. Number one: if you were to one day be walking down a beautiful country road surrounded by rural America, when you were supposed to be at home tending the garden, but your lying, fake stepparents had gone out for the afternoon and you had decided for the first time in your life to outright disobey them, and you got lost on the way and ended up having to try and survive on your own in the wilderness and had to give yourself a new more awesome name, what would it be, and why? Alright, that’s a little ridiculous, but it was all one sentence!! Pretty impressive huh? World Record Longest most Pointless Question!! Seriously though, about the other stuff. Now, something about a story about a boy . . .