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    Kevin

    By Emil Metallic

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    Meet Slim Taylor, the misfit boy who confronted a school bully.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmil Metallic
    Release dateMar 13, 2022
    ISBN9781005524319
    Kevin
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    Emil Metallic

    Emil Metallic writes stories based on people and places he knows or has known. Names are changed to protect the author.

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      Kevin - Emil Metallic

      Kevin

      By Emil Metallic

      Copyright 2022

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      My name is Jacob Taylor but everyone calls me Slim. As nicknames go, it’s fair. You’ve heard of morbidly obese? At 6’, 138 pounds, I am morbidly thin. I’ve always been this way. I don’t get hungry. But even if I did, it doesn’t matter how much I eat, I never gain weight. When I was a little boy my parents took me to a doctor who said I have low blood sugar, or high metabolism, or something like that. He said I’d never have to worry about being fat. My mom called me one of the lucky ones. At

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