They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
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Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
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And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
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Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.
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So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
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