fifteen fancies
It's strange. I was older yesterday, and I'm older today, but it's a different sort of older. Yesterday I was older but I was still me, but today I'm older and I feel like I'm from somewhere else. I don't really know how to explain it.
I've decided that I want to go to school. Keats told me that he has a doctorate in literature, and I would like one too. What could be more wonderful than going to school simply to study books? I never had much chance to go to school back where I'm from -- most people would call it home but really, the City is my home, so I'm quite at a loss what to call the world I'm from -- because I needed to help take care of the children and the house. Three sets of twins are very difficult for one woman to take care of, you know, although they're not much easier when you have an eleven year old helping. I received just enough schooling to learn how to read, much to Mrs. Hammond's dismay. She thought I spent too much time reading. I probably did.
Is there some kind of school here? How do I enroll? I realize that I cannot start a doctorate program right away. I'll need years more of studying before I could. I probably won't be here long enough to do so. But the future is a book waiting to be written! Who knows how long I'll be here, or what I'll be able to learn? It is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all. I hope I may live up to that saying in everything I do.
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I've decided that I want to go to school. Keats told me that he has a doctorate in literature, and I would like one too. What could be more wonderful than going to school simply to study books? I never had much chance to go to school back where I'm from -- most people would call it home but really, the City is my home, so I'm quite at a loss what to call the world I'm from -- because I needed to help take care of the children and the house. Three sets of twins are very difficult for one woman to take care of, you know, although they're not much easier when you have an eleven year old helping. I received just enough schooling to learn how to read, much to Mrs. Hammond's dismay. She thought I spent too much time reading. I probably did.
Is there some kind of school here? How do I enroll? I realize that I cannot start a doctorate program right away. I'll need years more of studying before I could. I probably won't be here long enough to do so. But the future is a book waiting to be written! Who knows how long I'll be here, or what I'll be able to learn? It is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all. I hope I may live up to that saying in everything I do.
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