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Lorraine Nelson: Sawyer... I don't know what to say
Sawyer Nelson: Please mom, I'll do extra class credit next year, I"ll write a essay, I'll do anything you want
Lorraine Nelson: I believe you... I get... I get this... I mean, it's... it's amazing
[Sawyer pleading to his mom]
Lorraine Nelson: I'll talk to Mr. Doyle
Sawyer Nelson: YES, I love you... Thank you
Lorraine Nelson: You're welcome
[Sawyer runs to Hazel]
Sawyer Nelson: Hazel, she said, "yes"
Hazel Haskett: Yes!
[They high-five each other]
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Lorraine Nelson: I am seeing something that a mother, a teacher, dreams of seeing: a turned-on kid. He is so engaged--and it's not with a Game Boy. It's with something that is alive and beautiful and real.
Johanna R. Griesé
Extended Reading
