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2016-04-12 11:44:16 Until August :●●●●●●●●●●●●rice.●●●●●●●●●●●●ap66. ●●●●●●ess ●●●●●● ●●●●●●gual I ●●●●●● to meet the more ●●●●●●nging ●●●●●●ts – those less ●●●●●●ained to speak, the ones who will be ●●●●●●ed in E●●●●●●ng Y●●●●●●re, those among the 10 per cent who take up 90 per cent of ●●●●●●rs’ time. Tom is 15. In E●●●●●●ng Y●●●●●●re we see him being ●●●●●●sly ●●●●●●, ●●●●●●ing and ●●●●●●tive. He is a ●●●●●●l for his ●●●●●●rs, who have tried ●●●●●●hing from ●●●●●●ion to ●●●●●●ion to ●●●●●●ion in the ●●●●●●t to ●●●●●●de him to ●●●●●● his ●●●●●●our. When I met him I knew his ●●●●●●y, but as a light-●●●●●●d ●●●●●●aker I asked if he ●●●●●●ered ●●●●●●f a swot. ‘What’s a swot?’ he said. I asked why he kept ●●●●●●g into ●●●●●●e. ‘I’m short-●●●●●●ed so I kick off,’ he said, ●●●●●●g at his ●●●●●●ed shoes and ●●●●●● ●●●●●●g my gaze. ‘I used to be in ●●●●●●ion every day, I had to go to the gym and copy lines out for an hour, but I used to just go to sleep. Or draw.’ That makes Tom sound like a lazy ●●●●●●at, but there is an ●●●●●●ing ●●●●●●ity about him. He didn’t seem a lost cause, he just ●●●●●● to be ●●●●●●d the right way and he hadn’t been given many ●●●●●● in life. Tom lives in T●●●●●●ll. ‘This is a ●●●●●● ●●●●●● area,’ he said and he ●●●●●● know: his ●●●●●●r went to ●●●●●● for his part in a ●●●●●● ●●●●●●. ‘He didn’t do ●●●●●●ng – he was just there when it ●●●●●●ed,’ Tom ●●●●●●d. And what ●●●●●●ed? I asked. ‘One of his mates ●●●●●●d an Asian ●●●●●● the face, a big scar down there,’ he said, ●●●●●●ng at his cheek. ‘My ●●●●●●r got 15 ●●●●●●, but he only did five plus tag. He’s 19.’ |