Dear Ubuntu User Reader,

When I was 13 or 14, my family and I spent the summer holidays in Gandia, a rather touristy town in the Spanish Levant, on the east coast of the country. Because I was at that difficult age when you are too old to build sand castles and play on the beach with your parents but too young to go out clubbing, I was easily bored.

Fortunately, our neighbors had a son my age, Salvador, and, although we were both shy and geeky, we hit it off. We had a great time fooling around in the pool, watching bad eighties horror and science fiction movies with terrible plots, cycling, and exploring the area.

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