Drawing a Blank

Drawing a Blank

Failing

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Jacob Souva
Sep 13, 2024
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A happy croc doodle.

I flunked out of college after one semester.

To me, it was no surprise. I hadn’t gone to class for 3 or 4 weeks. A young, scared and mostly lost guy doing dumb things with people who shared my proclivity for hiding from life. The fallout from this failure was mostly done to my sense of self, a swift kick in the head that took me years…

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