I don’t believe I cared much for sixth grade.

I was quiet as long as I could stand to be, but after what seemed like a thousand minutes, I realized that the play wasn’t going to perform itself, and so I flat-out told her, right there onstage, what her lines were. I have an uncanny ability to remember everyone else’s lines (though I can forget mine in a heartbeat). Her cousin, Brian, was livid. He was also onstage with us, in the role of Thomas Jefferson. And began to pinch my arm; he was standing beside me.