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	Hey Look

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7-17-2007 12:20 AM

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<SPAN>by </SPAN><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Simon Rich%22">Simon Rich</A>
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<P class="descender">W hat I imagined the people around me were saying when I was . . .</p> <P>Eleven:</p> <P>“Oh, man, I can’t believe that kid Simon missed that ground ball! How pathetic!”</p> <P>“Wait. He’s staring at his baseball glove with a confused expression on his face. Maybe there’s something wrong with his glove and <I>that’s</I> why he messed up.”</p> <P>“Yeah, that’s probably what happened.”</p> <P> </p> <P>                    ————</p> <P> </p> <P>Twelve: </p> <P>“Did that kid sitting behind us on the bus just get an erection?”</p> <P>“I don’t know. For a while, I thought that was the case, but now that he’s holding a book on his lap it’s impossible to tell.”</p> <P>“I guess we’ll never know what the situation was.”</P></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88686C97-5C4D-41D8-92AD-60DD4034B188/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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