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He had to practice this. It didn’t come natural. He was good with faces he used to tell people names seemed to fall out of his head quickly. 

But they stressed it always in the training. Most people didn’t do this. In normal life. He felt like he was trained to listen and really talk to people. 

For what he didn’t know. He would just try to remember names this year. 

He had like 15 people now. Little marks on the door meant someone had moved in. Or was going to. So he’d do his rounds later saying what’s up. 

The year before he was planning to live with other people. Outside of the school. Outside of the campus and all of its drama. He talked to one of his friends that lived off campus and he was jealous. He didn’t have to worry about people’s names. 

Just made sure he made it to class on time. Then he was fine. He didn’t have to worry about drinking or how he sounded or about anyone else other than himself. 

His life was different though. He had to worry about names. 
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