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Section 1: "Active Shooter" through "Bruised"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Sedaris, David. Happy-Go-Lucky. Little, Brown and Company, 2022. First Hardcover Edition.

• The first essay in the collection is called "Active Shooter."

• Sedaris recalls a car ride with his sister Lisa.

• She has picked him up at the airport in Greensboro, and they are on their way to her house in Winston-Salem.

• She tells him that a few months prior, she was on her usual early-morning run to Starbucks when she saw a woman with a monkey.

• She recalls being upset and wanting to ask the woman what she would do with the monkey once she lost interest in it.

• Sedaris offers the editorial comment that Lisa is an animal lover and is always sure that other people are not taking proper care of their pets.

• He asks his sister what makes...

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