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Section 1: Different Rules of Summer

• When Ari awakes, he is unhappy and not content with anything in his life.

• After he gets up and has a conversation with his mother, he goes to the swimming pool.

• Ari might as well be an only child.

• His twin sisters are twelve years older than him.

• His brother is eleven years older, and he is in prison.

• Ari’s father suffers from the time he served in the Vietnam war.

• As Ari walks to the pool, he faces down a group of younger boys who try to bully him.

• He thinks about how other boys comment about girls, and how he isn’t comfortable with that or being around other boys.

• Ari is not a good swimmer.

• As he is paddling around, a boy speaks up and tells Ari that he will teach him to swim.

• The boys compare names and...

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