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The Little Boy and the Old Man
For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was ar... 
Said the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon.
I came here with nothing and not being aware of anything when I arrived, and I shall go with nothing... 
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had ... 
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking ... 
I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylva... 
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti... 
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't kno... 
It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked ... 