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"My step-brother," he tells him out of nowhere the other afternoon, at the end of the school day, "went on Amazon and bought a can of evaporated water."
Another student is skeptical you can order such a thing.
"Go ahead," he says, "look it up. You can."
I'm not sure how to reply, so I ask, "Did it arrive?"
He nods. "He opened it up and found nothing, got mad, threw it away."
"Why would he buy evaporated water? As a joke?"
He shrugs. "No. For real. That's my brother for you."
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