Jack's Expulsion From a High School

In the indolent halcyon days before graduation, jack had thought about valente exactly once. When this insight lit up within him, it seemed to glow for a minute with a profound and inarticulable meaning, then he forgot it. And he probably would have forgotten valente too, if years later, he hadn't moved to the rural area where, according to their mutual friend, daniel, valente lived at home with his mother. Jack's house was in the next county, over half an hour away by car, but he was a new comer and he didn't know anyone else yet. He had moved there with sophie, sophy's choice