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I saw the white dust fly from the chalkboard as I wiped it clean of today's vocabulary lesson. The children behind me giggled when two white handprints appeared on the back of my black skirt. When would I live the life that I dreamed? I never thought that I would be a school teacher, though my mother seemed to have know.