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Rocket
If you look for the book on Amazon or something, you'll see a cover that looks a lot like this.
You remember the scene at the end? His little sister wants to go with him when he runs away, but he won't let her. She's mad and sad as hell and he wants to take her back to school, but she won't go. He doesn't want her to be mad at him, to at least talk to him, he'll take her to the zoo or anything, but she won't listen. He doesn't even wanna run away anymore. So he starts walking to the zoo and she's following on the other side of the street. And they see the sea lions and the polar bear. They come up to the carousel.
She's aching to ride it. She forgets she's pissed at him and he buys her a ticket and he watches her from the bench and she goes around and around. And she comes back to him and she wants to ride it again so he gives her some more money. She tells him she's not mad anymore and it starts to rain. She pulls his goofy hat out of his pocket and yanks it down onto his head and she walks all the way around the carousel and gets on the old beat-up, brown horse. It's raining and he's getting soaked, but all of a sudden he's real happy. All the crap he'd been worrying about didn't even matter, being expelled and skipping out, the alcohol, the cigarettes, the whore, the phony people, that girl he knew a long time ago who probably fucked his asshole roommate and all that. Nothing matters anymore and he's watching her, in her blue coat, going around and around and around.
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