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"The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."
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"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS."
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"A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life."
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"My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees."
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"Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself."
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"The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital."
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"People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me."
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"Even at church, people would not shake my hand."
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"The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story."
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