Status Updates From In fondo alla palude

When I started this book, I really didn’t expect to cry. But, damn, it’s well-written.

Bro what the fuck man. Hell nah. "Tom" is like a 10 year old girl... These are adult men getting haircuts:

"We did considerable hair-cutting business during that time, and I made several pennies sweeping up, and Tom made two nickel tips just for being cute and sitting there sucking on a peppermint stick."

"You couldn't believe in some things till you seen it or done it."

“He was young when all this occurred, most likely in his thirties, but at my age he seemed ancient.”

“Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.”

“It worries me mightily to think that there’s that much cruelty out there in the world.”

“The bottom line was curiosity ate up caution.”

“For the first time [I] began to feel that I had stepped over the line of being a child, and into being a man.”