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they would turn on music from our


              grandparent’s era while boys sat on


              one side of the gym, and the girls


              sat on the other, all of us playing a

              game of “stare down.”


                      Things went just as the eighth


              graders said.  The music played for


              about an hour without anyone


              moving onto the dance floor.


              Finally, the gym teachers danced to


              encourage us.  After they had

              danced a few solos with no results,


              they resorted to more extreme


              measures.  Boys were ordered into


              a line on their side of the gym, and


              girls were ordered into a line

              facing them, just like on the first


              day in class.  We were marched


              forward as if moving in battle




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