After the first speech, there were three more. An hour and a half later, I stifled a yawn and briefly wondered why I had decided to attend. Being ther... wasn’t required and I wasn’t going to receive any kind of special bonus to my grades, so why?I considered getting up and leaving, but no one else had, and I changed my mind when they brought out a box that held the final section of the scale-size model. I looked at the miniature city and found the empty spot for the section they brought out. I. .."He started pounding on the asphalt, shrieking in rage and anguish, "Youmaniacs! You blew it up!! Aughhhhhh- Damn You! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TOHELL!!!"It dawned on Dreyfus that his friend was acting out the final scene fromthe old twentieth century science fiction film PLANET OF THE APES."Come on Flaco, that's not funny!" Not funny? Are you kidding me? The astronaut, the Statue of Liberty-How could that not be funny?!" roared Flannigan. He fell over onto hisback, laughing horribly, tears streaming. It seems like weeks ago but it was just last night. My sensei wants me to get more serious about karate, which means more time. Mary's nerves have been wound tighter than last year's bathing suit, waiting to hear what your father was going to say. Oh, yeah. The woman who used to be married to my father and gave birth to me decided to drop by at the end of our volleyball game earlier today." Your mother showed up?" I'd rather not call her that. She may be many things, but she was never a. Bree’s hair was mostly gone. She had the wildest red hair I’d ever seen, a little more than shoulder length when it was down. Now it was tightly cropped around her head in a boy-cut. It was about the same length as mine now that I’d been barbered.Melody stepped forward and gave me a little kiss as soon as Donna had the apron off of me. Her mahogany tresses were gone. The hair was not quite as short as Bree’s, but almost. It was slicked down in a pixie cut that was swept behind her ears. I kept.