Life isn't easy for a boy named Sue. Sue had been told early on by his father, "Boy, this world is gonna eat you alive if you don't learn how to whoop you some ass," and his old man's wisdom turned out to be right on the money. It was his dad's way of teaching his son how to overcome life's inevitable obstacles. He just gave the kid a head start by naming him Sue.
The lesson came fast -- and hard. Sue had to fight every day in the school. Boys would come up to him in the yard and challenge him, saying things like, "hey, you got a girl's name!"
Those years were tough. But Sue proved to be as tough as those years. Eventually, he could lay a beating on anyone who dared to point out that he had a girl's name. It made him a reject and a target of random assault, but it also made him a man.
Life isn't easy for a boy named Sue.
--if anyone gets that reference...
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Twain
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