Personal Essay: The Drainpipe
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For a half hour, every school day, for a few months, I was really happy. A
friend and I would go to the drainpipe, and we would sit, talk, eat our lunches,
and listen to my walkman. It was the perfect place: It was quiet, beautiful, and
it was full of peace. It didn't matter whether it was cold or ....
Middle of paper
.... and it made me happy, and I don't
know why. That makes it better in a way, just knowing that it had that power.
Everyday, I would meet with a friend at the drain-pipe. That is until a
teacher found us and told us that because we didn't have any adult supervision,
we couldn't eat there anymore. It felt terrible. I wanted to stay there. I had
always thought that adult supervision was outdated by the time we were this old.
We had come to this place to get away from adults and all the o ....
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