Their childhood and them just being kids
Chapter 2 summary:
After coming back from Connecticut, Mitty had tons of homework, not to mention, ten pages of notes. At school the next day, his friend Derek, goes on and on about the anthrax murders. After school, Mitty starts on his notes, but decides to skip to his rough draft instead. Mitty continued to read about smallpox, everything happening to the people he is reading about could be happening to him too
A megalopolis is B. a series of almost continuous metropolitan centers with urban functions that exchange flows of people and goods with the surrounding areas and the rest of the world. An example is the Tokkaido Megalopolis in Japan.