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“The summer before junior year Ricky Bowen learned several things about himself.

He learned the hard way that the girl he loved writing him a love song prompted an immediate panic response (real smooth, Bowen).

He learned that he wasn’t actually very good at talking to girls he didn’t have a lifetime of history with (note: girls don’t love when you can only seem to talk about said girl you loved).

He learned that playing video games with his best friend did get boring eventually when there literally wasn’t anything else to do, no matter how many different Smash Bros characters he mastered.

But then one afternoon late in the summer, Ricky Bowen learned suddenly and without warning that maybe all those other lessons didn’t matter quite as much.”