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The driver has a very strange relationship with pain. It’s one of the many, many pieces of himself that he knows don’t fit the way they do with other people: one of the things that makes him not much of a person at all. No. That isn’t quite right. The two are tied. The day pain stopped meaning much to Driver was the day it stopped being a person. (He is sixteen, when he gets that car. The feeling that envelops him, that first night in his— his!— car, is both totally foreign and the softest thing the driver has ever felt. Something surges through Driver’s chest, hot and fierce and strong. The sound that bubbles out of him is somewhere between a laugh and a hiccuping sob, but Driver doesn’t care. It feels good.) Or, Driver's turbulent relationship with being a person, featuring a different approach to the canon story.

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