Character: Ben Hanscom

Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is this: the more things change, the more things change. And whoever said the more things change, the more they stay the same, it is obvious that it is characterized by severe mental retardation.

But when you grow up, everything changes. You no longer lie awake in bed, hearing the rustling behind a Cabinet or like someone scratching at the window. When it's really something beyond any logical explanation, the circuit overloaded, the elements overheat. You start to get nervous, shaking, wiggling and wagging, your imagination jumps from one to the other, nerves are shaking like a cowardly chicken. And you can't associate this state with what has happened in your previous life. You can't take it. You go back to this again and again, playing your thoughts like a kitten playing with a ball on a string. Until finally not go crazy, or not removed to a place where you no one cares.

... "Ben, in the world are starving so many kids that you should be ashamed of their weight". He paused and drank water. But she remembered starving children and in those cases, I left something in the plate.