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2.5sChris, would you like to read your personal essay?
1.57sOkay, Mrs. Donovan.
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2.9s"Following Mrs. Donovan" by Chris Griffin.
5.35s"The first thing that Mrs. Donovan does when she gets home from school "is put on sweatpants.
2.25s"Then she eats a whole tube of cookie dough,
5.8s"but she must be allergic to it "because there are tears coming out of her eyes "and she always throws up right after.
3.5s"Then she puts paper doll clothes on a picture of a sonogram."
1.27sChris, I think you should stop.
1.97sWhat? I'm doing the best I can.
1.9sI'm not Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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3.09s(CHUCKLING) Nathaniel, what are you doing?
2.3sJust ruining ninth grade for everyone.
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5.37sMr. and Mrs. Griffin, I called you in today because your son, Chris, has been getting in quite a bit of trouble lately.
5.79sIn fact, just yesterday, he tried to pass this drawing off as his Advanced Art project.