Trivia / Triumph of the Retart

• In Memoriam: The story is dedicated to a friend of Peter Guerin's who died of a congenital heart defect. The MST leaves this dedication unmocked.
• Write What You Know: Peter Guerin admits that he based the story on his personal experiences growing up. Problem is, Peter grew up in the 1970s. By the late 1990s, when this story takes place, many legal and systemic provisions had been put in place that would ''explicitly'' prevent the events of the story from happening.

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