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Personal Narrative: Too Good To Be A High School Teacher

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During my sophomore year, a woman named Lana Sullivan taught British Literature. She was four-and-a-half feet tall with a stoop, 98 pounds soaking wet, and well past retirement age. She also knew more about literature than anyone I have ever met. She could quote Tennyson and T.S. Eliot at the drop of a hat. She'd met Allen Ginsberg on multiple occasions. She was fond of saying that certain things could only be accomplished "by God and Shakespeare". She was amazing. Brilliant. Too good to be a high school teacher, everyone agreed, but now I think she was just right for it. I felt safe inside the walls of her classroom, and at the very same time I could feel the world expanding around me.
I have always loved books, for as long as I can remember,
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