Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids–all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine–it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order. Bill Bryson
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