if i try hard enough
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Last published Sun, Sep 27, 2015
Let's rewind here. Before Tony Stark becomes Iron Man, before he's the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, before his parents die, before he graduates MIT, Tony Stark is just a boy with a butler who's not just a butler.
"If he's not a butler, what is he then?"
Tony's reply was quiet, but came without thought. "He's everything."
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Follows the life of Tony Stark from infant to the man we see at the start of Iron Man; there's ups, there's downs and a hellav lot of mistakes in between.
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