My name is Gene and I was a former student at Devon School. Devon School is a beautiful private school located in a small town which happens to be located in the middle of nowhere. Devon School is considered to be one of the, if not the, best schools in New England. It could even be one of the best in the country. Around the school there were vast landscapes full of trees, playing fields, and many other things. Devon School was mostly known for its athletic programs. Some of the sports Devon School had were football, baseball, lacrosse, and soccer. Like at every school, you have to have your best friends, and my best friend was Phineas. Everyone called him Finny for short. Finny was one of the most athletic kids at our school. Finny and I went past the playing fields one day and found an dark, enormous, and intimidating tree. The tree stood right next to a river. Finny wanted to climb this gargantuan tree and jump in the water of the river. No one in our class, the Upper-Middlers, had ever attempted to jump out of the tree. But Finny always wanted to be the first. It's who he was. Finny jumped out of the tree claiming it was his "contribution to the war effort". Finny had the ability to persuade us quite easily so he got us all to jump out too. We all decided to skip dinner and it was noticed. Mr. Prud'homme gave us a visit and Finny told him that we were swimming in the river, that we wrestled, and kept going on and on and on. Mr. Prud'homme went on to say "if you hadn't missed nine meals in the last two weeks" and Finny stopped him mid-sentence and told him the real reason we missed the meal was because that we had to jump out of the tree claiming that it was in order to get ready for the war in case they dropped the draft age to seventeen. Prud'homme laughed it off and did not seem to mind. He then noticed Finny's emblem, a pink hankerchief, and was baffled about it. Finny told him it was an emblem so people can identify him. Later on, Finny found out about the sports for the Summer Session and was furious about Badminton being one of them. This gave him the idea to create a new game. It was called Blitzball. The most surprising thing about Blitzball was how popular it became. It seemed like almost everyone at Devon started playing it. The next day we were at the swimming pool and Finny pointed out that no one from our class had attempted to break the swimming record. This gave him the idea to go and break it without ever swimming for records. Finny went out and broke the record by .7 seconds.
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