4/2/2023 0 Comments Quotes from the book scrawlReaching down and helping Ricardo up would be a good idea. That's when I noticed the orange peel next to the bright blue can for the first time, close by Ricardo's tangled hair, but I really had to go. Mostly they looked at Ricardo facedown on the sick green dusty floor next to the overflowing trash can. Kids were starting to walk around us and look, but they steered plenty clear of me. Ricardo was pathetic sprawled on the hall floor, not crying this time but blinking a lot and not talking either, like he was in bed that morning and he didn't want to get up and go to school for some reason. I got up off Ricardo's chubby back, peeled myself off that authentic, autographed blue hockey sweatshirt he wears every day with the stupid hole in it, and I wiped off my big old carpenter pants. The bell rang for English class and I'd promised Mr. That's how it went for fat Ricardo Manzana. Grab the two lenses between your big hands and twist your wrist-just snap the part over the nose-now you can't see anything for the rest of the day. Change that curve a hair, just a tiny, minuscule difference, and you can see near. Grind the glass this way, put in a slight curve, and you can see far. But definitely they mean you can't see without them. Little pieces of glass stuck on your face that mean everything. They're just glass and metal, or glass and plastic. You see them every day but you really don't think about them, I bet. Think about a pair of glasses for a second.
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