Prologue: The Labels We Wear

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Saturday, March 24th, 1984
Shermer High School
Shermer, Illinois, 60062


Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, a criminal, and a shrew. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 07:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.

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