Talk:The Canaries/@comment-24040907-20140919060631/@comment-4893169-20140921000432

Thank you for this lesson in dialogue. I had to do some mental time travel because I was in like in sixth grade around the mid-80's. I got held back, by the way. No cells, ipod or iphones or Internet. Lots of cheesy clothes, simpler cartoons and MTV music videos. I wish I was less bashful back them, it might have helped in writing realistic dialogue. I wasn't one of the so-called populars, more like a geek although I didn't dress as dorky as some people.

You know, I think being a nerdy kid kind of helped understand what an outsider feels like when they're in strange new town and they don't quite understand what possessed their parents to suddenly move out of familiar place and into what feels like No Man;s Land.