Evidently nobody else need to go and my desperation grew. My teacher suggested we play Farmer in the Dell and as the game progressed, my self-control failed me.... It was one of the most humiliating moments of my life. But humiliating moments are mother's milk to writers, and the episode ended up forty-five years later in the first chapter of my book
Class Pictures."
2 "I was a very skinny, cowardly kid. There were lots of bullies on our block and I never learned to stand up to them. They'd take advantage of me until my older sister came to my rescue, bash a few heads, and I would beat a hasty retreat. The only place I felt safe was our neighborhood branch library where I spent as much time as I could. I was not weak in the sense of not knowing what I wanted to do or not having the determination to do it, rather it was that I was not at all confrontational, particularly if the confrontations became physical. It's the weaklings who grow up to become writers, not the bullies. Of this I am sure.
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