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confidence and easy charm with the ladies. He would routinely take meals and breaks with female co-workers, but was stifled in his efforts to court them by his crippling shyness. Plagued by terrible acne, instead of opening up to women, he continually guided conversations back to areas of his expertise, where he felt self-assured. Like the computers he so revered, Lépine was intelligent but unable to effectively process emotions. He also struggled with authority, slacking on his hospital duties and treating his bosses with disdain. Chronically distracted, he was prone to making simple errors in day-to-day tasks, which he would unfailingly acknowledge with his token “Ah, shit.”
    When autumn of 1983 came, Lépine suddenly changed academic direction, dropping out in the middle of his two-year Pure Sciences program in favour of a three-year vocational trade program in Electronics Technology. He continued to achieve good grades, including an 82 in Industrial Electronics and an 87 in Control Systems. However, in both the school and the workplace, he was regarded as high-strung — a bundle of nerves who was “always in a hurry.” Lépine would often slam meal carts, spilling soup, which his co-workers interpreted as aggression, though it is possible that his attention and coordination were distracted by his overwhelming anxiety. During this period, Nadia and Isabelle Lahaie, her roommate at boarding school, often visited the apartment at 2675 Marlborough. Isabelle remembers Marc as a “good guy” but “closed” with a “strange look — his eyes were lit up, he had the same smile all the time … You could see he was unhappy.” [12] A troubled teen herself, Nadia seemed indifferent to her brother’s problems, even advising Isabelle that the best ways to “get him mad” were to “call him Gamil, and tell him he is ugly and stupid.” Unsurprisingly, when Nadia returned to living at 2675 Marlborough in 1986, Lépine’s behaviour took a turn for the worse. With only nine courses left before graduating CEGEP in Electronics Technology, on January 31, 1986, the twenty-one-year-old simply stopped attending classes. He applied for the engineering program at École Polytechnique and was predictably rejected. Next he enrolled in summer courses, but dropped out. When July came, Lépine relocated to apartment 401 at 4185 St. Martin Boulevard in suburban Laval, away from his sister’s acerbic tongue.
    Lépine’s habitual clumsiness resulted in him being transferred to the cafeteria at St. Jude’s, but the constant steam from the kitchen only worsened his repulsive acne. Fellow employees mocked him and refused to let him serve their meals. Lépine grew a patchy beard in an attempt to disguise his complexion, but if anything, it only accentuated his imperfections. Eventually, he was relegated to the back of the kitchen where nobody could see him — a modern Quasimodo, whose deafening “bells” were grease and steam.
    That summer, Lépine befriended nineteen-year-old Dominique Leclair, the daughter of the man who ran the hospital. “I was kind to him because he was so hyperactive and nervous,” Dominique recalled. “Nobody would talk to him at lunch or break time.… Everyone else tried to avoid him because he was a bit strange because of his shyness.… He was always rushing things. He would never be calm.” [13] Regarding his co-workers, she readily admitted, “They were mean.” If Lépine ever had any romantic interest in Dominique, she did not pick up on it. Even when they dined together, he kept his eyes on his food, stirring it continuously.
    “I’ve asked a lot of girls out, but they have all refused,” he once confessed to her. “I know so many girls, but they won’t go out with me. I’m not good looking.…” The two finally went their separate ways in September 1987, when Dominique returned to school. Lépine was fired from his job at the hospital and attended a CEGEP in Montmorency. * Although he