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Unit 1, Why I Like Country Music

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1. My platonic state of mind might have stretched onward into a blissful infinity had not Mrs. Esther Clay Boswall, our teacher, made it her business to pry into the affair.

2. Although she prided herself on being a strict disciplinarian, Mrs. Boswell was not without a sense of humor.

3. She was particularly hard on people like me who could not contain an impulse to daydream, or those who allowed their eyes to wander too far away from lessons printed on the blackboard.

4. She would seem to be daring me, as if suspicious that, in addition to my secret passion for Gweneth Lawson, which she might excuse, I was also in the habit of throwing fits of temper.

5. I expected to have my own way in most things, and when I could not, I tended to throw tantrums calculated to break through any barrier raised against me.

6. Mrs. Boswell was also perceptive in assessing the extent of my infatuation with Gweneth Lawson.

7. But in that instant she seemed to be saying, "Don't look back now, girl, but I know that bald-headed boy behind you has you on his mind. "

8. It was her custom during this ritual to prod and goad those of us who were developing reputations for meekness and indecision; yet her method was Socratic in that she compelled us, indirectly, to supply our own answers by exploiting one person as the walking symbol of the error she intended to correct.

10 Because," the little boy would recite, puffing out his chest, "because if you don't blow your own horn ain't nobody else g'on blow it for you".

11 And Mrs. Boswell, plump brown fox that she was, never volunteered any more in the way of confirmation than was necessary to keep us interested.

12 Yet the stern morality of our parents, their toughness amid penny-pinching and attitudes toward work, their covert allegiance toward certain ideals, even the directions toward which they turned our faces, made us more Yankee than Cavalier.

13 All during the school year, from September through the winter rains, he bested me in my attempts to look directly into her eyes and say a simple, heartfelt "hey."

14 But he resisted my entreaties and even threatened me with a whipping if I did not participate and make him proud of me.

15 He was in no mood to bend under the emotional weight of my new demands.

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