It Takes A Lot Of Doing To

Oh, I Wish I Was Young Again When Everything Seemed So Wonderful!

The World Was Hers For The Reading.

She Was Surprised At How Tiny It Seemed Now. She Supposed The School Was Just As Big As It Had Ever Been Only Her Eyes Had Grown Used To Looking At Bigger Things.

You Won't Die, Francie. You Were Born To Lick This Rotten Life.

This Could Be A Whole Life," She Thought. "you Work Eight Hours A Day Covering Wires To Earn Money To Buy Food And To Pay For A Place To Sleep So That You Can Keep Living To Come Back To Cover More Wires. Some People Are Born And Kept Living Just To Come To This.