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Today, our high school's Athletic Department

expelled, from the varsity football team, the

most successful quarterback (and team captain)

in our school's history, who led the team to

state championship.

The reason for expulsion was not made clear

to us:  was it the length of his hair (now well

below his shoulders after two years uncut)?

The dress code, written fifty years ago, does

not allow for that.

Or, maybe, the severe dislike of shoes he

developed this past summer, such that, beneath

his distressed jeans' frayed cuffs, his feet have been bare

or sheathed in socks.  He attends classes that way,

and has been noticed.

Or, maybe, because---also this past summer---

he began dating a male, the class bookworm,

disliked by most of us since kindergarten

("fairy queer faggot" we called him):  and who would

have thought otherwise?

Now they defy all social expectations

by "going steady" as a couple.  And our

school's finest quarterback will be absent from

the team, his senior year; and he does not seem

to care all that much! 

J-Called