I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.