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grinned and passed it on. When I read it, I made no attempt to hide it as I passed it to the next person. The teacher saw it, as I had hoped. “Howard,” he said fiercely, “give me that note!” I handed it over, and he read it out loud, as was his usual practice. “When we leave the class let’s all do it quietly so we don’t wake Rod. Pass it on.” Rod didn’t hear it because he was asleep. The teacher just grinned and nodded his approval. When the bell rang, everyone quietly gathered everything up and snuck out. The class that followed us was an all-girl, home-ec class, who was in the middle of the chapter about makeup and hairstyles. As I went out, I heard Lenny whisper to the home-ec teacher something about a model as he pointed at Rod. She in turn looked at Rod and grinned. We were nearly 45 minutes into the next hour when Rod came storming into P.E. “What is the big idea of leaving me asleep in math class?!” But as we looked at him, instead of answering, the 17