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Hi, Martha,

To convince you that I had no such thing in mind while I was creating the character, I’m going to confess that I had to Google NPD because I’d never heard of it!

Narcissistic Personality Disorder. No. He was just thoughtless and mean, the way some people can be sometimes. Not every personality trait has a label, after all. And it would be too much of a coincidence that Aaron and Bear also had NPD. Nope. They were just jerks, the way some guys can be sometimes.

OK? Thanks for posting, Martha.                                                                     —–Gordon Korman—–