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I Will Swing Today

By Karen Arnpriester

When I was in the fourth grade, there was a school rule involving the swings so that the kids would have to share. After you counted to thirty, the child on the swing had to get off and you got a turn. This was a great idea unless you were a school leper, which I was.

Let me back up a bit. My family left West Virginia and moved to California when I was a kid. Before I started at my new school, my mom decided to home-perm my fragile...