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The beginning and ending of the story were the only parts where stuff was happening. I feel this story could be condensed into a novella with the middle stuff all taken out. The middle parts (maybe 200 pages) is only about the MC growing up, getting into drugs, playing music, meeting other people and it was all boring too me. The only interesting parts was when the pastor came in, but that was maybe only 30% of the story unfortunately.