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“FORKED BRANCHES We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the same schools, Rode the same bus, Had the same friends, And even shared spaghetti With each other's families. And though our roots belong to The same tree, Our branches have grown In different directions. Our tree, Now resembles a thousand Other trees In a sea of a trillion Other trees With parallel destinies And similar dreams. You cannot envy the branch That grows bigger From the same seed, And you cannot Blame it on the sun's direction. But you still compare us, As if we're still those two Kids at the park Slurping down slushies and Eating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.”

Felt Interesting Happened Lessons Percussion Schoolmates

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.”

Writing Shows Used Names Voice Five Magic Tables Seven Scripts Dolls Puppets Older Sister Magic Show Ventriloquism Puppet Shows Schoolmates

Author:David Wenham

“Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.”

Ifs Children School Issues New York Example Disease Our Children Ill Your Children Vaccines Contagious Public Health Vaccinations Health Issues Influenza Schoolmates

Author:Michael Specter

“In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.”

Poor Rich Mets Drunk Italian Ancestor Sober Yankees Garlic Rich Or Poor Gaelic Schoolmates

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.”

Today Action America Teach Teacher Happenings Prepared Organize Be Prepared Workshops America Today Schoolmates

Author:John Lewis

“Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.”

Writing Stories Shows Hell Students Mines News Accounts Hey Things To Do Reasonable Print Ads Echoes Printing Lucy Dummy News Stories Schoolmates

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.”

Love Reason Humor Funny Saws Comedy Limits Moved Classmates Schoolmates

Author:Emo Philips

“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

People Home Groups Normal Institutions Prison Cures Paranormal Jail Graduates Locks Schoolmates

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”

Should Long Said Stills I Can Remember Boys Ill I Realized Pity Bullying Bully Bullied No Friends Schoolmates

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Ifs Writing Years Running House Hurt Rooms Laughing Air Bed Clothes Laughter Bird Empty Letters Filled Afternoon Mary Embarrassed Feathers Hurt Me Small Rooms Empty Houses Schoolmates

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!”

Source: Anywhere He Leads Me