Word: us
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Immediately after the death, people asked Bob Berndt if the Stateswomen were canceling the rest of their schedule. "Coach wouldn't want us to," he replied. But some things did change. After warming up and just before breaking out of their huddle, the girls now recite a Hail Mary. Then they yell, "Averbuch, pray for us...
...People said we were cursed," says Meg. "All anybody could ask was, Why is this happening to us? And, Who's next...
...these kids are known as the Church Step Dirties because they convene after school on the steps of the Christ Lutheran Church, smoking Camels. At Webster, their perceived bad fashion, bad family, bad hygiene or bad attitude evokes disdain from many classmates. "A lot of people look down at us and write us off because of what we look like," says Gene. "They don't even know us...
...Webster's social pecking order, these kids are rock bottom. "We are definitely the outsiders," says junior Adam White, 16. "Not a whole lot of the 'popular' people give us the time of day"--a generalization confirmed by popular senior Adam Wise: "I don't know how to put it...but they...
...This was literally true for fellow Pegasite Amy Cook, who edits the school newspaper, has a 4.08 GPA and works 12 hours a week at a nursing home. By the middle of last year she was developing an ulcer that her doctor attributed to school stress. ("The doctor told us, 'Congratulations, I think you've got a budding college professor on your hands,'" recalls her father.) Now taking medicine for her stomach, Amy has scaled back on some activities and traded in her daily three cups of coffee for tea. Her parents ask that she log four hours a week...