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the page, yet no amount of scrubbing could seem to remove it from his skin. Some students thought that was when he received the nickname of Suzy Q, but it wasn’t. That came later. You see, even the bell signaling the change of classes didn’t wake him. Only the books slamming and packs zipping were enough noise to barely rouse Sleeping Beauty. He would pull himself together enough to move to the next class, where he would immediately fall asleep again. One day at lunch, before Rod got there, Lenny addressed the issue. “You know guys, I’m getting really tired of Rod falling asleep in class. The teachers are annoyed at us for not keeping him awake, and yet, if we try, he gets all mad at us. I, for one, have had enough.” “So what can we do?” I asked. Lenny sipped his milk as he considered it. We could see the wheels churning, and when that happened with Lenny, it was anyone’s guess what he would come 15