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SECOND GRADE SECOND TIME
I WENT TO SECOND GRADE A SECOND TIME:
I DID'NT GIVE UP I KEPT ON TRYING:
IN SECOND GRADE FIRST TIME:
I GOT REHEUMATIC FEVER AND THE DOCTOR SAID I WAS CLOSE TO DYING:
SO LUCKY MY MOM WAS A NURSE SHE RECOGNIZED THE SYMPTOMS EARLY:
SO IT WAS LUCKY FOR ME:
MY LEGS BECAME SO WEAK FROM THE DISEASE:
I HAD TO CRAWL TO THE BATHROOM ON MY KNEES:
I STAYED IN ALOT OF PAIN:
THE DOCTORS REALLY THOUGHT I'D BE LAME:
I JUST KNEW I WOULD WALK AGAIN AND GET STRONG:
I WAS RIGHT AND I WAS WALKING AGAIN BEFORE LONG:
THATS WHEN I STARTED SWIMMING TO REGAIN MY STRENGTH:
I LOVED THE WATER AND SWAM LENGTH AFTER LENGTH:
SECOND GRADE SECOND TIME:
I DID FINE:
MY GRADES WERE NOT SO HIGH:
BUT YOU KNOW I REALLY TRIED:
I STILL WAS THE CLASS CLOWN:
A LAUGH FROM THE CLASS I ALWAYS FOUND:
IT WAS A CATHOLIC SCHOOL:
THE SISTERS WERE PRETTY STRICT WITH THE RULES:
BUT SOMEHOW I ALWAYS FOUND A WAY:
TO LIGHTEN UP EVERYONES DAY:
21 FEB 2000:
JOHN D. JUNGERS
I DID'NT GIVE UP I KEPT ON TRYING:
IN SECOND GRADE FIRST TIME:
I GOT REHEUMATIC FEVER AND THE DOCTOR SAID I WAS CLOSE TO DYING:
SO LUCKY MY MOM WAS A NURSE SHE RECOGNIZED THE SYMPTOMS EARLY:
SO IT WAS LUCKY FOR ME:
MY LEGS BECAME SO WEAK FROM THE DISEASE:
I HAD TO CRAWL TO THE BATHROOM ON MY KNEES:
I STAYED IN ALOT OF PAIN:
THE DOCTORS REALLY THOUGHT I'D BE LAME:
I JUST KNEW I WOULD WALK AGAIN AND GET STRONG:
I WAS RIGHT AND I WAS WALKING AGAIN BEFORE LONG:
THATS WHEN I STARTED SWIMMING TO REGAIN MY STRENGTH:
I LOVED THE WATER AND SWAM LENGTH AFTER LENGTH:
SECOND GRADE SECOND TIME:
I DID FINE:
MY GRADES WERE NOT SO HIGH:
BUT YOU KNOW I REALLY TRIED:
I STILL WAS THE CLASS CLOWN:
A LAUGH FROM THE CLASS I ALWAYS FOUND:
IT WAS A CATHOLIC SCHOOL:
THE SISTERS WERE PRETTY STRICT WITH THE RULES:
BUT SOMEHOW I ALWAYS FOUND A WAY:
TO LIGHTEN UP EVERYONES DAY:
21 FEB 2000:
JOHN D. JUNGERS
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SECOND GRADE SECOND TIME
SECOND GRADE SECOND TIME