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He sits up and sees Pete sitting up beside him, Pete's hairless chest covered with goosebumps. He was annoyed. No one to slow him down; no witnesses to this final guerrilla action. Then he realizes that the kid who has dared to speak to him in such reproving tones is at least three years younger and a hundred pounds lighter than he is.

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