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Date: | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:18:40 EST |
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In a message dated 1/29/2002 12:56:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Also, "scold" is usually construed in my mind as an act performed by adults
> and directed toward unruly children! Adults should not be scolded.
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> Bobby
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> Oh Bobby, I was so angry the first time I read that word in Mag's post.
Just that word conjured up memories of the times I have been lectured by
people about how to be disabled, get undisabled, how to think (they're big on
that),etc.
I see the woman with that stern look. She shakes a disaproving
forefinger. I had expressed an independent thought, see? "You're getting
off on the wrong foot with me Betty!"
("Really? Which one is that, you boat-foot, bertha-lookin'...?")
Wait a minute...that was Miss Stebbins, my sixth grade teacher. She was
supposed to talk to me like that.
But I'm 43 now, and Miss Stebbins is dead.
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