Longmeadow High School - Masacksic Yearbook (Longmeadow, MA)

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It ' s true that physically we ' re strong and energetic, and that we dance and surf and ride around on motorbikes and stay up all night while the parents shake their heads and say, ' Oh, to be young again. ' What sticks in my head, though, is another image. I hear low. barely audible speech, words breathed out as if by some supreme and nearly superhuman effort, I see limp gestures and seden- tary figures. Kids, sitting listening to music, sitting rapping, just sitting. Or sleeping — that most of all. Staying up late, but sleeping in later ... — Looking Back

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Weekends. After a week of Binomial Nomenclatures, Trigonometric Functions, Defend Attack and Defining Definitions, two days to forget it all. You can scream until you are hoarse at a Basketball game, drown in carbonation and hot-fudge at Friendlys, smoke drin- k etc. yourself into a delerium at an open party . . . For two days you can shop, be with friends, sleep, do anything — unless of course your parents have other ideas, like babysitting, cleaning your room, doing your homework 31 x t ! 20

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High school — Four years of learning everything you need to know to get you out of high school and into college or a job. At fourteen we are barely adolescents; by eighteen we are supposed to be adults. The time in between has got to include more than four years of English and electives. Sometimes the people who are supposed to help us seem to be more trouble than anything else. We have fights with our parents, our teachers, fights with our friends; we fall in and out of love and decide that maybe it wasn ' t love after all. For four years we sift through ourselves, our friends, our values — deciding what to keep and what to leave behind. We look back at yesterday and ask Weren ' t we children? while our tomorrows slide by. J