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Thank you We sneak the absolutely true diary of a

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part time indian Allah Have you ever reached a point

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in your life when you're experiencing a life changing identity

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crisis black with white stripes or the other way around

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the kind where you don't know who you are or

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where you belong Nobody ever lets me forget my double

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citizenship through my arnold the only indian kid in an

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all white school or junior trader who turned his back

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on his tribe composer Good thing i like to draw

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it's the only thing that keeps me sane Well pin

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it reservation isn't exactly a vacation destination Everybody's super poor

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and there isn't a lot to do here except drink

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and ponder your wasted dreams Oh and beat on the

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wimp with giant glasses and epilepsy that seems to be

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a pretty popular hobby around here My best friend is

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rowdy and well e kind of lives up to his

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name I have to put up with a lot around

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here but strangely it was geometry that sent me over

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the edge Normally i dig right angles and serums but

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that was before i saw my mom's name in my

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textbook So unless she lied about her age my class

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was using the same death steeled textbooks from thirty years

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ago I expressed my frustrations to the teacher and a

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clear and concise manner I thought i was going to

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get shipped off to boot camp for sure But mr

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p was actually pretty understanding He told me that i

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had to get off the reservation somehow and the best

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escape plan i could think of was to transfer to

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a new school I knew i was going to have

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a tough time fitting in it reardon because it wasn't

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exactly known for its diversity Hey guys how's it going

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And then to top it all off my own tribe

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jumped me Rowdy definitely didn't take the news Well it

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probably didn't help matters that reading was full of rich

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white kids who kicked our butts at football basketball baseball

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chest unicycling competitive toenail clipping you name it after a

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while i got used to my new life as a

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double agent commute was a little tricky but i made

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a new friend named gordy who is even weirder than

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i wass good leaking another name penelope imagine an amazingly

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pretty girl who somehow willing to date me I even

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joined the reader in basketball team Unfortunately that men had

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to compete against rowdy welcome me back with a mild

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concussion Thanks old buddy Hey it's kept coming at home

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too drunk driving was pretty much a way of life

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on wealth in it but it took on a new

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meaning when it killed my grandmother that i lost eugene

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my dad's best friend to a pointless fight over a

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bottle of booze At least you didn't manage to be

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rowdy and the wealth and a team on the court

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it should have been a major victory but i learned

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that there isn't much glory defeating your own tribe especially

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when the deck is already stacked against them Going for

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a while it looked like my sister marry who's going

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to defeat the chris when she moved to montana with

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heart Follow her there too But maybe there's hope for

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the future I'm going back to reardon next year Rowdy

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is actually talking to me again with his words Not

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this Maybe i could make full time job out of

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this part time And my black with white stripes or 00:03:50.78 --> [endTime] the other way around

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