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My name is Sam. I didn't have too many friends growing up but I had a few people I hung out. One of my best friends was a kid named Josh whose mom was a single parent like mine. She used to travel a lot for work and would often hire a sitter. But as we got older, she started to trust Josh on his own. When we were in high school, she would leave every Friday for work and be back by Sunday night or Monday morning. She would let Josh stay by himself and leave him money for things like pizza or other takeout. I would stay over some weekends and it was always fun being left unsupervised. One weekend, when we were about 15 years old, Josh had invited me to stay over. I came over his house that Friday after school and his mom was already long gone. We hung out, played video games, ordered pizza. Before it got dark, Josh challenged me to a game of basketball. He had a hoop outside and we were always playing in our spare time. "Let's make things interesting" Josh said. "...