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Subject: story

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megumi

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Date Posted: 14:16:19 10/28/03 Tue

The parking lot at school si dark and cold. The lights glow with an orange fluorescense. Parents drive their kids up to the front door, the kids get out berfore the car stops, slam the door, the next car pulls up....an endless cycle. Everyone seems grumpy. They hurry int ot the building in silent clumps, pulling on backpacks and straining under armfuls of books. THere's cold spilled French fires on the pavement. The snow banks pile up around the perimier. They are frozen and slick. I'm carrying too manybags, hot coffee, my lunch. Sarah is up ahead, I yell hello, she yells back, doesn't wait for me to catch up. I was always the slow one. Walking home as a kid, I'd dawdle, especialy in the spring, when the roads were still dirt and melting snow made rivers down the sides of hte road. I'd walk home, slowly, eyes on the ground, smelling the wet earth, happy to be alive.

by Megumi Hahn

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: story	mike!	15:23:58 11/01/03 Sat
Re: story -- jaime tamm, 14:02:44 11/03/03 Mon Re: story -- Rebecca Rickard, 21:10:43 11/05/03 Wed
Re: story	Olivia	06:56:59 06/07/05 Tue