My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

the ones he had walked in facing the day before. Laura stood and walked over to him and smiled and nudged his shoulder lightly. Andrew laughed and nudged her back. Then the kids started filing out toward their classrooms, the machinery of a school day reasserting itself around the extraordinary thing that had just happened inside it.

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