The sight provokes an involuntary reflex: immediate loss of appetite, greasiness of hair, a profound muscular ineptitude that guarantees tripping over air in front of the patricians. You already know how it ends.  Ruined on the first day, too eager with the knowledge of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (having constructed a model that summer); sitting in the front of the class, not the back.  Finally, crushingly, last year’s backpack contains these failures to assimilate.  No Velcro Trapper-Keeper, no romping unicorn in space.  Don’t count on redemption through lovingly-inked band names, best to keep eyes forward and let them copy that Scantron.
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The sight provokes an involuntary reflex: immediate loss of appetite, greasiness of hair, a profound muscular ineptitude that guarantees tripping over air in front of the patricians.

You already know how it ends.  Ruined on the first day, too eager with the knowledge of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (having constructed a model that summer); sitting in the front of the class, not the back. 

Finally, crushingly, last year’s backpack contains these failures to assimilate.  No Velcro Trapper-Keeper, no romping unicorn in space.  Don’t count on redemption through lovingly-inked band names, best to keep eyes forward and let them copy that Scantron.