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...would go over to my friend Jenny’s house. The only thing we had in common was the lack of an Italian ancestor. My athletically-challenged self was perfectly happy not hanging from the monkey bars or playing dodgeball at recess. I helped her with her math homework and she taught me how to play box ball. Every afternoon, after finishing homework (that I had mostly done on the bus anyway), watching “Dirty Dancing” or “Dave” for the 100th time, we would venture out into the neighborhood...
Then the serpent came. Vinny pulled into Jenny’s driveway on his cool, training wheels-less bike one day. Thinking he needed help on that day’s homework, a name-acronym poem, I was already thinking of words that begin with the letter V when he walked over towards me...and my bike—my pink, four-wheel bike...
...didn’t take long for me to learn how to ride my new pink two-wheeler, but it was many months before I liked Jenny enough to help her with her math homework again. Vinny moved away right before high school, so he never got to see me get my learner’s permit the day I turned sixteen. Determined not to get left behind again, I passed my driver’s test within five months...
...buying a t-shirt, you can feel like a knowledgeable and enlightened member of the community without having to accomplish anything too concrete. But being aware of something and actually doing anything about it are two very different things. For instance, I am always aware that I have homework...
...great break in your day,” she said about her track and field involvement. “You’re in class in the morning, usually you’re sitting down, you’re learning things. And then if you’re doing homework at night, you’re also sitting down. If you get up in the middle of the day and move around, run around, I think it’s a good mental break and it gives you energy to do things in the evening.”Blattler...