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...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

I Figure If Doc Is Right About The Time I Have Left,i Should Wrap Up My Adolescence In The Next Few Days, Get Into My Early Productive Stages About The Third Week Of School, Go Through My Midlife Crisis During Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, Redouble My Efforts At Productivity And Think About My Legacy, Say, Easter, And Start Cashing In My 401(k)s A Couple Weeks Before Memorial Day.

My First Book, 'running Loose', Was Censored Back In 1983 Or '84. Every Book I've Written Since Has Been Censored Somewhere.

Being An Outsider Means Not Being Heard, Not Having A Voice. It Means Being Treated As A Second-class Citizen, Being Diminished In The Eyes Of Others. We Have All Felt This Way At One Time Or Another, But Some Feel It More Consistently. Unfortunately, Our Schools Often Do Not Embrace The Talents Of Many Of Their Occupants.

We Get Crazy When We Can't Make Things Be Like The World Tells Us They Are". She Looked Back Out The Window. "it Was That Way For Me And Your Brother, I Think. I Mean, How Could I Have Loved Him That Last Year? I Didn't Even Know Who He Was. He Was Way More Attracted To Drugs And Bikers And That Whole Lifestyle Than He Was To Me. But Somebody Told Me That If You Really Loved Somebody,you Stayed With Him No Matter What. You Had To Fight For Him." She Laughe. "hell, I Was Convinced.