Then, in front of the whole classroom, the deputy principal said to me, ‘We’re going to have to send you home because we’ve found nits on your cousin.’ C’mon man. You didn’t have to say it in front of the whole classroom. I looked around and everyone had heard. ‘Let’s go, we’ve got to make sure it doesn’t spread to the rest of the class. Grab your stuff.’ I made my way back to my desk and I’ve never seen ten-year-old kids move so fast. The thirty little rascals parted like the Red Sea, and there was me, little Vietnamese Moses with my head down and my cheeks bright red, walking through the
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