Rowdy And The Narrator’s Relationship:

-Best friends “You are my hero.”

-Rowdy has someone to talk to “He is the only person who listens to me.”

-The narrator gets accepted for who he is and protection from bullies “Rowdy has protected me since I was born.”

-They both have mental problems. “I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad.”

– Both pairs of parents are alcoholics and abusive. “My parents are drunks, too but they arnt mean like that.”

-they were born the the same day.  “both of us were pushed into the world on november 5th, 1992.”

-Theyre both different people