Words of My Mouth, by Joe Mackall
This memoir really said something to me. As a kid, I got a tingling feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I did something that I knew I wasn't supposed to do. It felt good. We kids would then do those things so much that it becomes a second-nature thing, something we say without thinking. We never really fully understand the meaning and connotation behind the words we say, because they are new to us. Mackall was just a regular kid trying to be one of the cool guys saying things that everyone else was saying, but it obviously did not get him much glory in the end.
9/19/2010
graded 9/28
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