Ghost Story
That same year when I was a junior in Mrs. Watson’s eleventh grade American literature class, Mr. Lenore, the sixth period senior government teacher at Carlton P. Pierce Senior High School, got shy Karly Tan pregnant, and the news was all over our school in two weeks, even though she was to graduate from that school with honors in five months. Even though Karly wouldn’t lift her eyes to say boo, talked through a curtain of long, black hair, folks said girls like that get what they deserve, messing around with old men — twenty-five years older than she and married. Didn’t she know...
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