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...about the emotional agony her daughter must go through every day. "When someone outside her immediate family compliments her on her pretty dress, she looks at the ground and clenches her fists," says Lisa. And because Abby couldn't tell her teachers that she had to go to the bathroom, she used to be very worried about having accidents at school...
...Russell, her first-grade teacher, the child has found a sympathetic ally. The teacher periodically sends small groups of children to the bathroom together, alleviating Abby's stress about asking for breaks. And rather than lose patience with Abby for the false starts, she praises her for trying. Indeed, the most striking thing about the well-managed classroom is what this perpetually smiling teacher doesn't do: she doesn't command Abby to speak up, nor does she stop calling...
...their pay in the past two months. Octavio recently got a raise to $10 an hour and supplements his income by doing freelance car repairs after hours, but after paying his rent and sending more than $1,000 a month to his mother (who plans to build a bathroom with running water), he doesn't have much money left. His only furniture is a mattress and a milk crate. Cardboard does the job of window shades. Octavio speaks just a few words of English and says he lives in fear of his Anglo neighbors, who seem to be constantly scolding...
...Tatsumi's characters include the sewer worker who encounters aborted fetuses, the pornographic film projectionist whose only turn-on is bathroom wall art and a metal puncher who sacrifices his hand for the insurance money. Some stories, like the titular one, are just enigmatic portraits of modern strife. In it, the Push Man, a student who earns extra money by cramming people into subway trains during rush hours, has the tables turned on him when he meets a sexually aggressive woman whose equally voracious girlfriends work him into a corner and tear his clothes off. The story ends...
...also came with a dusting of fake stubble for Vincent's smooth, pink, ladylike cheeks--"I was always thinking, Is it coming off? I always had this little hanky. I'm sure people thought it was really affected. I was always going to the bathroom to check it." Plus, Ned had a brand-new manly attitude. "One of the things I picked up as a man was projecting a certain confidence and authority and entitlement," Vincent says. "As a woman, you're often apologizing for things...