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both looked skeptical Mommy tried not to have too

much of a reacti

on when she saw hiht of

his swollen cheek widened her eyes anyway "Hi," he said and they nodded speechless "What did you tell them?" he asked as we

walked away

"Exactly what you told me,"

"They look like they don't believe it"

I stopped

"Who would?" I asked and he laughed We went to the office and began to review his

social studies material first We worked the same time

all the remainder of the week, then we expanded our

study hours as the final exam dates approached

Daddy orried I was spending too much time

helping Harley and not enough on my oork but I

assured him I wasn't