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[anaross]

Help!  I'm trying to track down a probably apocryphal but very affecting story. A teacher supposedly wrote it. She was having trouble with a class (7th grade?) one day, and on impulse she made everyone write their names on a paper and pass it around, and all the students were supposed to write only what they really liked about that kid.  And so

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[demonbrat_98]

I believe that it is on snopes.com, which should be able to source it for you.

[demonbrat_98]

And here it is: http://www.snopes.com/glurge/allgood.asp

Turns out that it's true!

[anaross]

Thanks-- gee, it's even more inspiring that it's true!

Unfamiliar words

[anonymous]

How come when you write your posts I have to do a dictionary search on half of them (well not really)? Strange words I have never heard of before but thanks to the Internet and dictionary search I can find out what it means anyway (English not being my native tongue).

How can something that never happened be true? Please feel free to expand on that and I hope you don't go with the U-537 movie where the actors went "it's based on a real event and it could have happened except for the fact it was the British who did it and all the events in the movie are total BS". I hate based on a true story cause that pretty much means nothing in a movie is true :)

/SpaceLord

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[anaross]

How can it be true? Well, I'm a novelist, so I think "true" means "emotionally right." If it makes me cry, it's true. It doesn't have to have actually happened.

But turns out, this did happen!

[fajrdrako]

Great story! Seems to me more teachers should do this.