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“What would you like to learn in school?” Mrs Keating asks, when it becomes clear that Dean won’t add anything else, and Dean shakes his head, because it would have been fucking useful to know so many things - how to cook healthy stuff on a motel’s half-broken stove, and how to deal with a kid brother who feels responsible for their mother’s death, and how to say no to his father, how to say yes to Gary Williams - sweet, stupid Gary, who’d tried to kiss Dean in the locker rooms back in Ohio and had been beaten bloody because of it.