When I was eighteen years old, I knew everything there was to know about anything ever in the history of the entire world. I thought I was a genuine, Stephen Hawking-level genius. My entire life stretched ahead of me, and everything I'd ever wanted was going to be handed to me on a silver platter carried by admiring angels who'd ask, in dulcet tones, "Brendon, how'd you get to be so cool?"
I also thought I was immortal.
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