So I got to thinking about the kid who ultimately took the heat off me, a hulking, buck-toothed, dorky outsider- possibly gay, in retrospect- boy who came to my school a year after me; a smart kid who was completely unsocialized around his own peer group and hadn't the first clue how to relate to other kids, and was utterly tormented for it. At the time, I was so relieved that someone else was getting it that I just retreated into grateful invisibility rather than trying to be friendly, but I had thought of him from time to time, and this film brought it all up again. Anyhow, on to Facebook: Nothing. I Googled him, and got a couple of hits when I added his actor parents' names to the search. He died of heart failure eight years ago. It has been bothering me ever since. I wonder how he turned out as an adult- whether the bullying turned him into a stronger, more independent grownup oddball as it did me, or if it ruined him, and now I'll never know.