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(Continued from page 2) window, wondering how long before the bell rings and I can get out and go swimming.
They always said “nothing’s so bad but what it mighta* been worse,” and I'm thankful I’m not sitting in a hot school room.
o o o * Considering how.many opportunities we have for making mistakes, even
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