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If only, Dyer implies, Americans with the misfortune of paying for their own dental care could afford the rite of developing gum boils.

Or is Theophilus acting in actual bad faith, so convinced by his preferred mythology that he’s unworried about any harm the rites of exorcism inflict on Emma?

The arc of the series is involved mainly with their sorting and resorting themselves into couples, however briefly, as they navigate various youth rituals and rites of passage, like beer pong and getting fake IDs.

The disaster left many students wondering whether they’d get to experience certain adolescent rites of passage, including prom.

"I've seen the videotape of what happened to this young man. It is not a rite of passage," he said, referring to the student who had the pillowcase put over his head.