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What makes schoolchildren special? Also: Lighting a fire under Fred. Coming to terms with President-select Hillary. Rush audience too small. Plus more.
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Dave Light
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Maynard, Massachusetts
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I’ve got one of those “special” kids — starting his first year at
an elite university who is suddenly and brutally learning that he
really isn’t a “special kid” at all! It’s hard to watch, but a good
lesson for him to learn. By the way, we are now home-schooling the
younger one.
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Sherry Mayer
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Greensboro, North Carolina
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LIGHT HIS FIRE
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Re: Quin Hillyer’s
Open Letter
to Fred Thompson
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Pedrito, for whom I was his eponym, was a lethargic male mule my father gave me for my tenth birthday. When my rascal friends and I wanted to have a really exciting ride, we would spray a nip of turpentine on that part of Pedrito’s anatomy where the sun never shines, except when digested food comes out.
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