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Janis by
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Prompted By Temptation

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He paused, looking like a person who was calculating an age difference or trying to recall the age of consent.
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Easily Led by
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He left school at the age of fourteen, and though he can lay brick, overhaul a transmission, frame a building, tailor jeans, pull a lamb, lie under oath, move a piano, weld steel, grow vegetables, jackhammer pavement, shoe a horse, steal a car, take down a tree, drink God into oblivion, and kiss like the devil on LSD, he has never taken Intro to Psychology.
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Seventy-five cents an hour, plus tips by
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Prompted By My First Paycheck

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When I was twelve or thirteen, my family moved to New Jersey, and I became friends with a group of little girls who were all good at, and experienced at, babysitting. I wanted to earn money, and I wanted to be good at the job too, but I wasn’t. I didn’t have any younger siblings…
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First Grade, First Day by
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No one had prepared me for a darkened classroom.
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Hippie clothes at Riverhills Elementary by
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Prompted By What We Wore

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Eager to join the ranks of the outre, we wore maxis to elementary school.
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One giant leap for us sitting cross-legged on the floor by
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Prompted By Moon Landing

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A day indoors at summer camp and a win for patriotism
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Eating Like an American by
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Prompted By What We Ate

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At Burger King, we ate with our hands!
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