VII LOVED LIVING, EVERY second of every day. Life never quit being an adventure.
It was exciting to go to school and meet all these people with their various views about things. When I got to go back to school, I was asked all sorts of questions about my face and how it felt, even though they were all told not to.
And some of them tried to tease me. But they never got the punchline about everything. I just laughed at the good teases and jokes, and pulled my own teases on the bad ones, the really mean ones. Like putting on a shocked face and looking at the top of their head, or over their shoulder at something. And maybe whispering about whatever I was pretending to look at to some friend of mine who didn't tease me. (Most of the time, I was saying gobbledygook or, "Hey watch this kid ge
