It would not have been so bad if there had been someone else in my class who had stood up and walked out with me. But nooo. I was the only one. It took me a second but I got up, red faced and dying. I marched out of the classroom, with my head hanging [...]
I often thought of the Cole girls and wonder if they ever made it out alive. For a long time, I thought that my giving them the barrettes, were the reason they were taken from our school. Maybe their parents got mad or something, thinking they’d stolen the barrettes. I confided this to a teacher, [...]