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Fair Haired Boy

Mike Berger, PhD

He was a handsome kid.
Several girls called him
every day. He was a Greek
God. His hair was black as black
and his dark blue penetrated to
the quick.

He went off to the University
majoring in pre-med. He had
a hard time. He didn’t know how
to study. High school had been
too easy for him.

Now he was just one of the
20,000 students attending school;
a cipher in an amorphous mass.
He flunked beginning chemistry.

They found him dead of an overdose.
Everyone was shocked. They couldn’t
figure it out. They would never
know how ugly it got when the
cheering stopped.

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