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Battle Royale

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Jason went to the store just a couple of blocks away from his mother’s house to grab the groceries his mother wanted. Shopping went by pretty quick as the list wasn’t complicated and the produce, dairy, and other items were easy to find. Then came the cereal isle where his mother’s request for Grape-Nuts was more than challenging when trying to find. Standing and looking at what seemed like every box of cereal in the isle, Jason noticed a young boy and his mother shopping in the same isle. He could see by the mother expressions that she was trying to relate a message to her young son about not putting random things in the grocery cart. The boy soon threw a fake cry which was soon followed by a temper tantrum. The mother quickly tried to …show more content…

She became a passionate fan of the Yankees only because he was. She like Vampire Weekend, The Pixies, and Joy Division because he loved those bands. She had to endure every Wes Anderson film and learn that her beloved Hunger Games books and movies are phony ripoffs of the Japanese novel and film Battle Royale. Jason knew she loved learning new things and urged her to find interest she truly loved without his influence, but the more Jason thinks about it now he doubts she ever did while she was with him. Jason walks over to the desk seeing the picture frame that once held a picture of the two of them posing on Madison Avenue. Now it frames a picture of 5 young women out on the town drinking wine. Jason had to look hard in order to recognize which one was Sarah out of the five and began to smile at the thought of her being unrecognizable to him. She has changed and the apartment now shows who she really is in a way. As Jason moves away from the desk he realizes that grey sweater on the chair is not his, but a grey sweater that is imprinted with the Boston Red Sox

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