The fact that he’s an outsider, that he’s not like the other kids at school is what drives him (like so many) to science, to something he can make sense of and put himself/his trouble in perspective. He’s also a huge science nerd, the kind of twelve-year-old who reads (and re-reads) Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan for entertainment. Also, his best (only?) friend, Gabi, has been spending less time with him and more time with new friends-the kind that would bully him. He’s not that close with his father, and his mother left home a few months ago, with no warning and no one has heard from her since. When they were three, his twin sister drowned (and he’s always felt this absence, and is sure everyone around him does, too). Which is troubling to him, but really, it’s the least of his troubles.
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