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Teen Ink Magazine, May 2001 : Nonfiction Articles

A Flight Through Adulthood At 1:30 on a Tuesday afternoon I boarded a shuttleto Washington, D.C. There were no families, crying babies or agitated mothers onboard - just cell phones and business suits ... Continue...	An Achilles Heel My left heel throbbed uncontrollably for weeks.Physical ailments, however, seemed to be the least of my worries. It wasn't untilI returned home from visiting friends in Philadelphia that the gravity of thesituation struck me. I had actually done it ... Continue...
Fishing for Alligators Just last summer I had my first true fishingexperience. I'm not saying I had never fished before; a good part of my childhoodmemories revolve around the hours spent reeling in bass, halibut, red snapper andother inhabitants of the sea ... Continue...	I Just Wish I Could Thank Her Unlike most people I know, I am adopted. I am notsure where I was born, but I know it was somewhere in Texas. All hospitalinformation is unavailable to me. I was six months old when my parents met me andtook me home from the agency in Fort Worth ... Continue...
Now and Then She starts her champagne-colored mini-van and pulls outof the driveway. I scan her profile, starting at her strawberry-blond hair andmoving down to her gray, emotionless eyes. She feels my stare and looks at me ... Continue...	Sea of Green The truck pulls up beside the rusty gate andscreeches to a stop. She steps out onto the dirt road, outfitted in a pink dressthree sizes too big ... Continue...
Seeing Outside the Lines This selection can be found in Teen Ink: Written in theDirt, the sixth in the Teen Ink book series, comprised all of fiction andpoetry. All six books are available in bookstores nationwide and online ... Continue...	Sometimes She's my daughter sometimes when she combs herstraight, dark hair. Or when she curls up on the side of the overstuffedcouch with a fat book and stays there for hours. ... Continue...
The Best Years This selection can be found in Teen Ink Friendsand Family, the third in the Teen Ink book series, all available inbookstores nationwide and online. Continue...	To Say the Pledge It all started after I read The Man Without a Country.The events of that October morning in seventh grade led to my being banished fromsaying the Pledge of Allegiance. The bell rang and I went to homeroom ... Continue...
Wisdom and Courage Nearly eight years ago my mother was diagnosed withovarian cancer, marking the beginning of a long and exhausting four-year battlethat would eventually take her life ... Continue...	Wishful Thinking Iwould pay the last penny in the bottom of my childhoodpiggy bank to find the passion and unleash the inspiration that will take me downthe path to become an "adult." I am an artist ... Continue...
Word Association With all the acrimonious words in the English languagethese days, there are still a few associated with only the most pleasant andwonderful of things. They are rarely spoken, and when they are, they're notexactly shouted on the highways ... Continue...

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