In the summer of 2011

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In the summer of 2011, Dole, the huge banana company, invaded Sri Lanka. I know. It sounds bad, doesn’t it. What made it even worse was at the time I was eating a huge yellow, juicy banana. It was probably Dole’s. I didn’t know. I didn’t know anything at all except myself, my own little world.

I was always making plans for things. I planned on being an artist, a hero, but none of them turned out to be fruitful. I was completely alone. I was just like a vegetable, maybe a carrot, maybe a head of broccoli, maybe an onion, but I was definitely, definitely not a hero.

I was just a boy. I sat in my room, planning for things, which you already know. But I always thought that if, you know, somebody believed in me