Team Dude decides to get a fire started, and then go out fishing and crabbing. Rocky says that maybe they can "have Anthony get the fire going" while the rest of them go fishing. Anthony nods knowingly, and a little wryly. Ants swarm all over stuff. As the rest of the guys go fishing, Anthony voices over that, indeed, this is like the first day of Gym class where you're the only nerd there, and you don't really even want to take your shirt off if you don't have to. "I'm a nerd," he says. "I know this. I'm a nerd, I'm a geek, I'm a dweeb, whatever the hell you want to call it." He goes on to say that he's not quite a comfortable fit on the "burly man team." It's weird for me to contemplate how many of my male friends would not fit in on the burly man team, despite the fact that there's nothing wrong with any of them. I think this is something Anthony needs to not worry about. "I'm so screwed right now," he laughs. What's great to see about this is that Anthony sort of wept that one time, talking about being beaten down and so forth, and I think he's reached a wonderful point of don't-care-ness, and that's going to serve him very well as he goes on, both here and in his life.













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