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Jake's time in military school further traumatized him, as his parents refused to visit him and all but forgot about him until graduation. His letters home ("[[The Daria Diaries]]") show him becoming increasingly broken and bitter from his time there, and writing vicious screeds against his father; he forgives his mother though, viewing her as having no choice but to go along with "Mad Dog's" ideas. He was in the Color Guard during this time, and also picked on by other cadets. He had a friend called Randy (sent to the Ridge for putting his fist through a wall) who, after four years, went AWOL; Jake wanted to go with him but didn't to deny his father "the satisfaction" of him flunking out.
At either Buxton or at school before then, he asked a girl out to a school dance and she rejected him for "Mr Campus Hot Stuff". In attempt to "show her", he went on his own; the very concept of school dances sets him off. ("[[Daria Dance Party]]")
Afterwards, Jake enrolled at [[Middleton College]] thanks to funding from his family, thus not being shipped off to the [[Vietnam War]] ("[[The Daria Diaries]]"); the war had wound down after he'd left college ("[[My Night at Daria's]]"). At college, he joined the hippie counter-culture and met his future wife [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] there; the counter-culture was a calming influence to the seething cauldron of repressed rage and hatred for the world around him and for his father, and he became an extremely cheery optimist with a firm belief in the counter-culture's ideals and rejecting the modern world. He also attended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert Altamont Free Concert] and somehow ''got his money back'' despite Altamont being free ("[[Road Worrier]]").
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