I taugo read and e again during t termined to keep me inside or  or in ing symbols ions, rules and effects, and, most important, ting proved more difficult, primarily because one o o say before confronting tual dra turned out to be a tiresome c afternoons, I practiced e, filling it over and over  my compulsive be, but not before printing, as neatly as possible, quot;I love my mot; Sickled to find t later, and ture earned me an entire peac a slice for t even my father.

    ty of going to second grade quickly eroded to a dull aco me, altered someanding t otic. I still tussle  so mucions—addition, subtrac-tion, multiplication—as tract configurations. Elementary science and ory revealed a  t differed from my experience among t George ason is, metapry, nor did I realize t a food c of organisms of an ecological community according to tion in ural order felt most unnatural at first. Matters in t ential. Liv-ing depended on sincts, not memorizing facts. Ever since t  man remained. If ayed inue to endure.

    Our struggle o find t co trade places. It couldnt be a random selection. A c decide on a cook me, and seven ury. t  only survival in t t to come back into this world.

    returned, t learned patience became a virtue. My sces cime craernoon, ing an eternity for t in tultifying room from September to mid-June, and barring ed to arrive by eig seven ed,  out into t luncrospect, tual moments spent togeto our time apart, but some t measured by quality ratity. My classmates