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true
Relationships have 5 stages :)
The door creaked and a rectangle of light fell onto the magazine that I was reading. I looked up to a boy who had come into the lobby was a stranger, about nineteen, tall and thin.
"Looking for someone?" I asked.
"No," the boy said. His long fingers trembled as they fumbled with the buttons of his coat.
"Well, may I help you with something?"
"No." The boy dropped his coat onto the worn tweed sofa and sat down slowly. In the light from the window his pale cheeks gleamed as if wet.
He's sick, I thought, while walking over to him. A narrow hand reached out and seized my wrist, cold, strong fingers twining around my arm like vines or snakes. I try to fight the impulse to pull away, looking down instead into the boy's troubled, grey eyes.
Answer:
Lapointe included information about the Seminole's history and their situation today to demonstrate how some students admire a Mascot for its historic value in a tribe and and symbolizes courage and bravery of not backing down no matter what the situation, this also include the U.S. army.
"Bonding Over a Mascot" is an essay to show the country that an Indian mascot cannot let a community (college) down. It is a great expression by Lapointe to illustrate how absurd things are getting in America.
Arrogant appears to have the closest connotative meaning.
