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No Salesmen

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9th of June 1994  it was graduation day from high school. I had attended Jakobsbergs gymnasium (as had Andreas, Mattias and Fredrik G) but Javed went to Upplands Bro gymnasium (with Peter G, "Spettan", mentioned in the Youtube video  Back to childood areas ). These schools have about 20 km distance from each other. Me and Javed were kind of industrious (at least in theory) and had plans to earn money. At the very same day as this graduation we had a scheduled meetup at a sales company. It was a one-day education in the art of forceful, ugly peddling. At first, at the graduation, we followed suit and played regular young men (with fully functional parents). Javed's mom might have attended at his school though, I cannot recall from our talks. Mattias' parents kindly bestowed me with a boquet of flower from Mattias' hefty lot. I happened to leech on his reception outside the high school, and they snapped a photo. I joined Mattias on his decorated trailer bu...