This failure to adapt to new circumstances left a scar on the young man's mind.
He has a scar under his left eye and speaks with a Bristol accent.
Mr Routledge said it was "true that I've got a scar that I call my shotgun scar".
It seems likely to be a long-standing saga, a scar of our booms and busts of the last decade.
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"The current humanitarian crisis in the North Kivu province is a scar on the conscience of the world, " he said.
Tissue cells, instead of performing the normal self-repair of damaged tissue, begin laying down excessive layers of collagen to help build a scar.
Joshua O'Gorman, 33, appeared in court via videolink with a scar from a gunshot wound clearly visible on the right-hand side of his face.
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"It will be a scar across the county of Staffordshire, we won't see any of the benefits because the train won't stop here, " he says.
Far from being harmful, amyloid is "actually a response to injury that the brain secretes to protect itself, like a scar, " argues Mark Smith, a neuroscientist at Case Western Reserve University.
Having to do so onstage, at the apex of one's awkward phase, in front of a battery of news cameras and reporters feels like a twisted sociological experiment -- and it leaves a scar.
He also asked for money to set up a car hire business in Malta and for false surgery, an incision which would leave a scar, for example, so that he could avoid military service in Libya.
In Silicon Valley, bankruptcy is treated like a duelling scar in a Prussian officers' mess.
Weaver still has a nasty scar of his right leg from a cut he got while being tossed about in the turbulent waters.
When the eschar falls off, which is usually a week or two later, it leaves a permanent scar.
She said realising "what he'd done to her was wrong" had left a deep scar on the girl.
The first procedure left a big scar, although it can be easily concealed.
When Sally stands up and drops her sheet, we see that there is a thick scar running down her torso.
My children were born easily and joyfully, while several friends came home with real horror stories and a caesarean scar.
The rest have to make do with a quick swipe across the knee with a scalpel, to mimic a surgery scar.
Mr Fairley said the surgery had left Mr Cook with "a significant scar" extending from his ear to the middle of his head.
During a visit, Bard stared at the left foot of this reporter and stated, correctly, that there was a big scar under the sock.
Even within the Jewish community, some - albeit a tiny minority - believe circumcision can leave a lasting psychological as well as a physical scar.
He said former military bases were a "scar" on the landscape.
Ms Leggatt told the jury the wounds had healed but she had a large scar on her stomach where she was operated on and scarring on her leg.
Viewers are shown close-ups of a healthy lung next to a blackened emphysemic lung, and the loop of a transplant scar that runs under Ms Laffin's arm and across her back.
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