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misleading, but I didn’t directly say it

     was mine.


            Inevitably, my colleague would


     come to work the next day and laugh,

     “Those little devils hit me again!”  I

     would just laugh along with him,


     especially since I was not the one who


     had to clean the mess out of my trees.

     He was surprised at the increase in his

     popularity in those years, and I was


     more than happy to let him revel in the

     joy of his students’ love for him.


            However, he grew older and

     eventually left us.  At first I was at a


     loss as to what to do.  But it wasn’t

     long until a new faculty member joined


     our department.  I nonchalantly asked

     him where he lived, and then






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