There was nothing to take care of because he had never owned anything.The police said all they found at the scene was an empty liquor bottle and half a pack of cigarettes.There was no sign of a struggle. He had been blind drunk and fallen headfirst into the kiln. His head had struck and broken the bricks below.“He brought it on himself.”After my mother’s cousin took care of the burial, he laid a flower on the grave and sighed.The grave was nothing more than a small mound of damp earth. There was not even a headstone.That was the ending he had made for himself.(3rd POV)When the local news aired its interview with Fairhold’s highest-scoring SAT student, the whole town was talking about it. Theo was sitting on the curb while eating a corn dog.The girl on the screen wore a school uniform faded from countless washes.The reporter asked for her secret to academic success. She remained silent for a long time.Finally, she spoke softly into the microphone. “Take more practi
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