I knew something was wrong this morning because he always forewarns me when he's going to be absent and so I had a feeling something might have gone wrong.

When I get up in the morning, I don't think about how old I am, ... I think, 'I'm going to do what's fun.'

When everybody else checked out and he wasn't there to check out, that's when they knew was something wrong.

THE POOR AND THE SUBJECT CALLED "POVERTY" IS FILTH TO THE RICH AND THE SUBJECT CALLED "RICHES", BUT CLEANLINESS IS THE ONLY MARK OF ACCEPTANCE.

My uncle called me this morning. When I heard it, it was a total shock. I couldn't believe it.

You can't be absent for your first five classes and then show up for driver's ed. They knew if they missed an earlier period they couldn't go to driver's ed, and if they didn't go to driver's ed, they couldn't get their license. There was a real incentive for them to keep all their grades up.