19+6=25.
"It [will] always be a put-on, high school or not, for the whole rest of the world, for the rest of our lives. You [can't] ever guess what someone [is] by the way they [look] because, good or bad, the way they [look is] always just a costume or an act. It [is] Halloween every day, for most people anyway, just to feel like they [aren't] alone, to belong, just to keep being happy maybe. Maybe everyone else might go on thinking that people [are] just what you [see] - the clothes, the haircuts, the cars - but not me, even though it [seems] the whole world kind of [works] that way: a put-on, only interested in the appearance of things like your class, your race, whether you [are] a girl or a boy, all the stuff you couldn't really change anyway. It [seems] really hard to grow out of that; maybe all you [can] do is try your best, try not to judge people from the way they [appear] to be, I guess. I decided I might tryto do that, try not to make decisions about everyone by what I [see] because of how small and wrong that [is,] but it [seems] that [is] just the way my brain [works,] that all I [can] do is keep trying. I [think] maybe that's what growing up might do for me maybe, which [is] kind of scary."
-Brian, "Hairstyles of the Damned"
-Brian, "Hairstyles of the Damned"