Ooh, Too Raved, Page 75 + 76.

It's funny how a hit like that can be all it takes to knock you off course. Hardly more than a tap or nudge, and suddenly you find that you've become someone entirely new, some dark version of yourself you never thought possible. One minute you're a boy with promise, you're an honors student, you have friends, a future; and the next you're twenty-nine and living in the basement of your cousin's house. Where has your chance at happiness gone? You don't know. Whenever people talk about how the neighborhood has gone downhill, it feels like they're talking about you.