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Neil: [Neil finds Todd sitting alone on the roof] Hey! Todd Anderson: Hey.
Neil: What's going on?
Todd Anderson: Nothin'. Today's my birthday.
Neil: Is today your birthday? Happy birthday!
Todd Anderson: Thanks.
Neil: What'd you get?
Todd Anderson: [indicating the desk set lying beside him] My parents gave me this.
Neil: Isn't this the same desk set...
Todd Anderson: Yeah. Yeah, they gave me the same thing as last year.
Neil: Oh.
Todd Anderson: Oh.
Neil: Maybe they thought you needed another one.
Todd Anderson: Maybe they weren't thinking about anything at all. The funny thing is about this is, I-I didn't even like it the first time.
Neil: Todd, I think you're underestimating the value of this desk set.
[He picks it up]
Neil: I mean, who would want a football or a baseball or...
Todd Anderson: Or a car.
Neil: Or a car, if they could have a desk set as wonderful as this one? I mean, if-if I were ever going to buy a desk set, twice, I would probably buy this one. Both times! In fact, its shape is... it's rather aerodynamic, isn't it?
[walks to the edge of the roof]
Neil: You can feel it. This desk set wants to fly!
[hands it to Todd]
Neil: Todd? The world's first unmanned flying desk set.
[Todd throws it off the roof - papers fly everywhere and things crash and clatter to the ground]
Neil: Oh my! Well, I wouldn't worry. You'll get another one next year.
(Neil Perry & Todd Anderson(c) Dead Poet Society)
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If I were in Neil's shoes, I'd pack my things, leave home, gather most of the money in the house (or all if I want to leave my parents penniless), buy a plane ticket and move to Tangiers, get a job and raise a little orphan girl as my younger sister or daughter. His one ambition in life - besides his own happiness - was to become an actor, so after fifteen years he returned to the States and joined the staff at Welton Academy. Following Mr. Keating's footsteps, he knew he had to speak out wherever he saw injustice and inhumanity - something his daddy did. And like Mr. Keating, he was shunned by all the teachers like a pariah for being idealistic and reckless, but he knew that he was deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply, loved by his former piers. In the movie canon after Mr. Keating left, Todd swore to God above him that he would follow in his friend's footsteps. On my own council, Neil owed it all up to him, but on his terms, he was a weakling, and nobody likes a coward unless they have enough sympathy to give them a chance...for I did not shed a single tear over his death, all I had to say (and this goes for many other children who have committed suicide over bullying and similar problems)..."What a coward!" I am a victim of the autism spectrum, but I am proud, and lucky, and strong enough to live to be 21 years old...and that is the best part of any manhood.
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