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What else she does: Sorts mail for 15 hours a week and tutors a 12-year-old tomboy through Mather House HAND...
...teacher was a disaster as a child growing up in New Jersey. "I did very poorly in school," she recalls. Her teachers and parents were constantly on her case for rowdy behavior. "They just felt I was being bad -- too loud, too physical, too everything." A rebellious tomboy with few friends, she saw a psychologist at age 10, "but nobody came up with a diagnosis." As a teenager she began prescribing her own medication: marijuana, Valium and, later, cocaine...
What I forgot, in my brief shock of discovery, was that I'd never been a big fan of the color before. It wasn't that I was a tomboy--I was too wimpy for that. And it's not that I didn't do my share of pink activities, playing with Barbie dolls and with pink games like Candyland...
...sport. For one period of a preseason skirmish, Manon Rheaume, 20, was in goal for the N.H.L.'s Tampa Bay Lightning, and her bosses say she has a chance to make the team. Can her achievement be a harbinger of gender integration? We bet there's a Little League tomboy phenom who could play shortstop for the Yankees someday. (And soon, please!) We also bet Oprah Winfrey could take George Foreman...
...tells it, Dunne's decorated athletic career emerged from the confluence of two factors in her life: her visual impairment and her stepfather. Even at a young age, Dunne, a Chicago native, was restless for activity, and was a self-described tomboy. "My mother made sure that when I lost my sight I didn't stop that," she tells...