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In ninth grade, my English teacher told me that I couldn't possibly have written the assignment that I turned in.

When I asked her why, she frowned, exasperate, in front of the class, she said,

Now, we both know that you are too dumb.

I fell silent, but later I wrote again because she told me I couldn't.

I wrote dark words, red words, and these words fueled by hate were hateful.

Notebooks of rage.

Then a friend whom I secretly loved, she read one of my Fury pages and asked why.

And I started to answer her, but if I said a stupid teacher, said a stupid thing, I would sound stupid to her.

Write something nicer, she said.

So if I did, I wrote a love letter, but I didn't call it that.

I couldn't call it that.

Instead, I called it a story about a ball and a stick and a parrot.

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