Christmas Pieces

I once taught briefly at a school with many affluent students. That year, just as every other year, I began my English classes with a suggested journal entry on "the worst thing that ever happened to you." Most of my students said things like "the worst thing that ever happened to me was when my mom took my DVD player out of my room" or "the worst thing was when we had to leave Disney World early...

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