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-19The High School English Teacher Retires For thirty-five years she did battle against ignorance, that childhood evil: nurtured the wise, subdued the rabble, and wrestled with all the uncertainties that obliterate the soul. At sixty she simply wound down like a dusty childless toy: shelved her books, turned once around in the chalky room and tilted on home. She says she is beyond hurt now, even the recent wounds do not matter at this age, and the old ones lie smooth as frozen lakes at dawn. . ...

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