How does Chris/Alex compare to these other people? Chapter 8

• A lack of common sense is shared among those mentioned in Chapter Eight.

• Rosellini's family was wealthy. Live Chris, he was athletic and intelligent, and he did not acquire a college degree.

• Waterman, like Chris, grew up in the suburbs surrounding Washington DC.

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