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advantage of. “Any hard thing where
you can get crushed, I was like, ‘I need
to learn how to do this.’ So by now I’m
built for war. Because then people don’t
screw you.”
Alex also took advantage of his natural
strengths. “I learned that boys basically
do only one thing: they chase
girls. They get them, they lose them,
they talk about them. I was like, ‘That’s
completely circuitous. I really like girls.’
That’s where intimacy comes from. So
rather than sitting around and talking
about girls, I got to know them. I used
having relationships with girls, plus being
good at sports, to have the guys in
my pocket. Oh, and every once in a
while, you have to punch people. I did
that, too.”
Today Alex has a folksy, affable,
whistle-while-you-work demeanor. I’ve
never seen him in a bad mood. But
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