Brian Elroy McKinley, age 40, has written a letter to Brian Elroy McKinley, age 12. This is a recurring fantasy for me — not just the possibility, of, say, retyping Neuromancer and submitting it under my own name when I was 12 years old, or buying MSFT at a buck a share, but stuff like being a better pal to some friends who died or went astray, avoiding some terrible gaffes and lapses in judgement, taking better care of my spine, and so on. What would you tell your 12 year old self?

Oh, and while I’m trying to help remove some bad things from your life, I want to tell you that Jimmy Carter is not the Anti-Christ. In a few years a speaker at church will try to convince you that the president at that time, whose name will be Jimmy Carter, is the Anti-Christ. And without knowing any better it will scare the hell out of you. Don’t let it.

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