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"Do you know why you're afraid when you're alone? I do."
"I never told you, but you sound a little like Dr. Seuss when you're drunk."
"We were supposed to draw a picture, anything we wanted. I drew a man who got hurt in the neck by another man with a screwdriver."
"You saw that on TV, Cole?"
"Everyone got upset. They had a meeting. Mom started crying. I don't draw like that any more."
"How do you draw now?"
"Draw...people smiling, dogs running, rainbows. They don't have meetings about rainbows."
"Instead of something I want, can it be something I don't want?"
"Okay."
"I don't wanna be scared anymore."
"Stop looking at me. I don't like people looking at me like that."
"You ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck?"
"Yes."
"And the tiny hairs on your arm, you know when they stand up? That's them. When they get mad...it gets cold."
"I didn't know you were funny."
"I walk this way to school with Tommy Tammisimo."
"He your best buddy?"
"He hates me."
"You hate him?"
"No."
"Your mom set that up?"
"Yes."
"You ever tell her about how it is with Tommy?"
"I don't tell her anything."
"Why?"
"Because she doesn't look at me like everybody else does and I don't want her to. I don't want her to know."
"Know what?"
"That I'm a freak."
"Hey...you are not a freak. Don't you believe anybody that tells you that. It's bullshit and you don't have to grow up believing that. You hear me?"
"You said the 's' word."
"Yeah, I did. Sorry."
"I see dead people."
"In your dreams?"
*Cole shakes his head no*
"While you're awake?"
*Cole nods*
"Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?"
"Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead."
"How often do you see them?"
"All the time."
"Once upon a time there was this person named Malcolm. He worked with children. Loved it more than anything. Then one night, he finds out he made a mistake with one of them. Didn't help that one at all. He thinks about that one a lot. Can't forget. Ever since then, things have been different. He's become messed up. Confused. Angry. Not the same person he used to be. And his wife doesn't like the person he's become. They hardly speak at all anymore. They're like strangers. And then one day this person Malcolm meets a wonderful boy who reminds him of that one. Reminds him a lot of that one. Malcolm decides to try to help this new boy. He thinks maybe if he can help this boy, it would be like helping that one too."
"How does the story end?"
"I don't know."
"Tell me a story about why you're sad."
"Do you think I'm sad?"
*Cole nods*
"What makes you think that?"
"Your eyes told me."
"Are you a good doctor?"
"Well, I used to be. I won an award once. From the Mayor. It had an expensive frame.
"Congratulations."


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