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Let the carnage begin

“Noah Sloan, child actor at age seven, Oscar winner by age thirteen, Hollywood bad boy at seventeen, then vanishing, doing only low-budgeted indie file twenty-seven You’ve captured all the headlines after being cast as the lead in the upco movie Sinners Like Us as well as your recent run-in with the police and of course your ind ro with the current situation with your father… Some year”

I smiled “Tell me about it And it isn’t even over yet”

“All of the information I just recited can be found in just a common search I want to truly understand who you are, and when I got this interview, I figured I’d get a list of topics to stay away fro is off the table and everything is fair game”

Goddamn it, Austin “I’d tell you to do your worst, but I’m sure you didn’t need my permission for that”

“I don’t So let’s get right to it,” she said, leaning in slightly, “You were scouted by an agency while shopping with your step i, who later abandoned you and your step-brother?”

I didn’t want to talk about her or anyone relating to my family from my start—I’m sure she knew that, but didn’t care

“Yes, ent looking for new shoes after I was ju home on the corner of 47th and Mitch She was so scared Frank would find out, and she went into her rooot an old peanut butter jar from a hole in the wall by her dresser It was her ‘runny day fund,’ as she liked it call it”

“She was scared that Frank, your father, would find out your shoes were stolen?”

I shook my head If it only were that siave up ht That day, on the corner of 47th and Mitch, I knelt down, took off hed in o Instabbed over”

“Seeical for a seven-year-old And your father wouldn’t have been okay with this?”

“You’ve never been to Southbend, have you?” I asked, and she shifted uncoiving up hter, I was a bitch—not the title Frank wanted for his sons So Pegi, worried Frank was going to beat me near dead, took me to the mall While ere there, a scout ca i’s face She nearly took i laughed it off until he gave her his card along with so out, and he took my photo”

“And the shoes?”