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choice. Today, among our former students, are two highpowered lawyers, a professional dancer, a psychotherapist, a pediatric endocrinologist, a singer, a writer and a computer whiz.

But in my minds eye they are all still teenagers. I see them laughing and working side by side with the adults, mixing the dirt and cement and feeding the mix into the press — from which, like muffins, the bricks would emerge. Or they are bent over a row of organically grown beans, picking bugs off one by one. Or, they are working with the staff in a frantic clean-up of the main house before a would-be student arrives with his parents, while three other students refuse to help, on strike against our “hypocrisy.” “Let them see us as we are!”

Last Wednesday night the sheriff’s office woke me at 3 a.m. to inform me there was a

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