At a dinner table with a large All In The Family type family at a holiday. A grizzled patriarch asks us to look at passages from the bible. the relevent lines are about not drinking wine. I follow along with a pencil and underline. In a tone of surprise at his own audacity, he says he's going to skip wine for the meal and have water. Everyone agrees. I think, good for them.
Something about being on the water? A boat?
At high school. I get an envelope that's intended for two other girls. One is a poor black girl and one is a girl I know from computer class at Sarah Lawrence. They share a mail box. I go over to deliver it. Rebecca, the girl from SLC, is freaking out because she's going to transfer and lose half a year. We all go have lunch at the cafeteria. Someone makes a crack about Richard Nixon. A teacher from the school hears about this and calls us into the office one by one to grill us about the "incident". We're all unrepentent: we think Nixon sucks.
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