The day was cold, and it seemed to want to give way to drizzle.  I had a decision to make.  If it started to rain later, I would get wet walking to school in the rain.  I walked every day in any case but it was a question of timing.  To heck with it.  I decided to gamble and sneaked back home.  I had waited until the last of my sisters had left for school.  My mom and dad had long left for work.  I hid on a side street behind a small brush to make sure everyone was gone.  I had never skipped a day of school.  I was not that kind of kid.  Waiting a few more moments, I scurried back up the little hill to our house.  I was almost 12.  No one would know.

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