Book Excerpt I: Indentured Scholars
As if on cue, the unmistakable sound of distant gunfire made its way into the living room. It would be another fifteen minutes before police sirens were heard.
Mr. Kinder saw Mrs. Sanford flinch. He first thought it was from
the urge to lie on the floor, to be beneath window level. He quickly realized that it was her mental search for her son that gave her skin frozen tremors. He pondered the gross inequality of an American Mother’s Day. Just having children gives all concerned parents a protective pause. Worries include marginal grades, unknown friends, or the propensity to try something, just once. Why should some mothers have to experience the heartache of a knock on the door with a municipal official asking questions regarding the clothes that their child might have worn?
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