Aftermath
Word Count: 100
We're in This Together
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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Despite the fact that Ace is three years older than Luffy, they do everything together. Within a year, Garp goes from being exasperated by their fighting to being exasperated with their inseparability.
He sends them to boarding school one summer, claiming that it's for the sake of their education, so that one day they can become good cops like him. Ace knows it's probably just because the old man needs a break from the two troublemakers.
While there, they meet a boy name Sabo. It is the start of a beautiful friendship, one that brings many teachers tears of frustration.
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