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" How I Spent My

Spring Break "

This is from a teacher who asked her third grade

pupils to write about how they spent their spring

break holiday. One child wrote about visiting his

Grandparents at their Retirement Home.

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" We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and

Grandpa. They used to live here in a big brick house,

but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Arizona.

Now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded

people.

" They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green

to look like grass. They ride around on big tricycles

and wear name tags because they don't know who they

are anymore.

" They go to a building called a wrecked center, but

they must have got it fixed, because it is all right

now.

" They play games and do exercises there, but they

don't do them very well. There is a swimming pool too,

but they just jump up and down in it with their hats

on. I guess they don't know how to swim.

" At their gate, there is a doll house with a little

old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody

can escape. Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go

cruising in their golf carts.

" My Grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I

guess she forgot how.

" Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat

the same thing every night: 'Early Birds Dinners'.

" Some of the people can't get past the man in the doll

house to go out. So, the ones who do get out bring

food back to the wrecked center and call it pot luck.

" My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn

his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be

retarded someday too. When I earn my retardment, I

want to be the man in the doll house.

" Then I will let people out so they can visit their

grandchildren. "

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