Another Kim 159 x 365

“Pop and popcorn! Pop and popcorn!” We’d scream as we jumped up and down. Visiting Kim and her brother Mark was always a treat. Things changed the year Kim advanced an extra year in school, and Mark and I were retained. We’d switched "ages" and with that, childhood pecking order.

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Helen said…
"Retained" somehow sounds ominous...
2/21/07, 3:50 PM
Otter said…
Yes I much prefer..allowed to explore the grade again. Of course that's six words instead of one.
2/22/07, 7:17 AM
Cedar Waxwing said…
Well, retained is better than "flunked" which is what the kids said happened to me.

It used to be my most terrible secret, but after a while I knew Miss Meyer did me a great service by keeping me back a year. Had she not, I think I may have dropped out of school at some point and most likely not gone to college.
2/22/07, 10:55 AM
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