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t was not for his parents demanding

s felt it was a waste. He already knew what he wanted to do an

us on passing tests and writing papers. Getting along with a roommate he did no

nly high point was joining the Gospel Choir and getting most

to sing more t

o one knocked down his door to s

dom roommate was assigned to him. Last year. Tommy Get-High-All-Day Morgan was his roommate. Their room smelled like Snoop Dog's cave 24/7. He shaved his pu

y he would get

t the place situated while his father went on about staying focused and being a good little Christian.

two hard, wooden desks with chairs, two small closets, and a small sink with a mirror above it. His side

he knew he was an improvement. He was more similar to him. He could pass for his brother. Roughly the same height and

d all-black Nikes. His roommate dressed in a white t-shirt,

a camping-style bag strapped to his back. He dropped the shoulder bag to the

ed to him, coming over to him sittin

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year, but you ain't hang with the

of parties, and even floor mates he could have hung with. He only hung with them during Gospel Choir practice, and even then he was not very sociable. He sat by himself in the cafeteria attached to their residence

n his bed and started to open the larger bag. "I do a li

out sheets that were bare-thin and

ings you need to

this

arents brin

or not. I took the Amtrak train and walked through campus to the dorm, it'

n with his things, plus he had lots of things in his Toyota Prius. From nice bedding, and extra bedding, to nice hotel-plu

sion, laptop, tablet, two boxes of books, and school supplies. Also, he brought down his awards and

s, his mother was a nurse's aide, and his father drove a bus for the Metro in St. Louis

train in?

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the edge of the bed. "I can give you rid

w kicks, but mom could barely afford my train ticket here, so we gotta do wha

put his sheets on the bed you could still see the mattress phase him. The blanket he had was barely any thicker than the sheets. Yet

e should get an act togeth

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to assume, man, if you're not into

to like me." He had never had a girlfrie

He sang about God and gospel music, which did not get girls thinking about dropping panties. Because he never had a girlfriend, he never had sex e

to be your year. Our year. Hang with

those big things wou