The boy nods
"Theres a lot to the world you haven't experienced, and I don't want you to spend your whole life here if you don't want to."
"But this is my home, I like it here"
"This is the only place you've been, of course you like it. But you're right. If you want to stay, I can't make you leave."
"yep...and you know how you said I wasn't educa...ted...I would like you to make me eduated"
He nodded. "Alright, sure. Do you know how to read and write?"
He thinks for a moment"yes"
"Okay, let's see...."
The boy watches him expectantly
"Alright, math. Do you know your numbers?"
"A...little bit"
"How high can you count?"
"ten"
"Alright, 11 comes after ten, 12 comes after eleven, then 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. after 20 it goes 21, 22, and so on till 29.
"then what happens after 29?"
"30. Then it reapeats till 39, which then goes to 40."
"oh...then its...fivety after forty?""
"It's pronounced Fifty, but yeah."
"but forty is pronounced four-tee, why isn't it five-tee"
He shrugged. "I dunno."
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