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EDDIE AND DONALD, a poem by Wendy Marie Vergoz, featured on Life As Activism
Giggling girls have power the radio tells me after the election. An epidemic of contagious laughter spread through a girls’ school in Africa, 1962, and no one then knew why. Hearing this carries a now-giggling me back to my 5th grade classroom—to tiny freckles on Eddie’s nose, sprinkled sweet as whispers. My girl-small hands unfold a scrap of notebook paper, where penciled print asks, Do you like Eddie? Circle: Yes or No
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