Jake is a normal seventeen-year-old kid except that he is developmentally behind because of a situation at birth. He is aware of who he is and what happened to him. He explains to the audience how his accident happened and that his mom tells him that there are things that he sometimes doesn’t understand. What we find out through the events of the story is that he actually does understand. He understands that his mind doesn’t work like everyone else’s. He also understands that his parents don’t want to take care of him for their rest of their lives. Jake is very aware but often gets ignored for what he does know. The highlight of Jake’s life is his twin brother Jessi. Jessi was born with no difficulties and he is a great big brother to Jake. There is a moment on their eighteenth birthday that Jessi decides he is going to celebrate it alone, for the first time without Jake. As Jake waits in the car, then walks to the Burger Hut to find Jake eating their birthday dinner alone he is heartbroken. When Jessi tells him he just has to get over it, Jake takes what his says literal. Overhearing his parents say that they don’t want to care for him forever, he also takes that quite literally. Jake does in fact understand but there are things that he translates incorrectly. When his mind tells him that no one loves him, there is no reason for him to live, he takes that and puts it into action. This story should bring light to the fact that people who are different from us are still people and that words have meaning, and they matter. Jake is a wonderful young man who wants nothing more than to be loved by the people he calls family, unconditional, full time, family love.