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Sunday, March 11, 2012

story 7 of 11, Guy returns to fourth grade

story 7 of 11, Guy returns to fourth grade

fiction
edward w pritchard

It's difficult for a 27 year old graduate student to  return to the fourth grade. It's a technicality, a bureaucratic nightmare. Still it is happening. I can't get my PHD in economics from Yale until I spend one month in fourth grade. My State requires a minimum attendance to finish grade school and what with Father's international travel back when I was ten my absenteeism  has caught up to me.

Being the biggest kid in the school is one thing. Failing arithmetic because you are fantasizing about the Teacher Miss Ford is something else. Miss Ford has long red hair and a ...
to be continued

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