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k the disciplinary repercussions of her bold named Dimmu and loves her more “than life and anything else."
i personality. I spy on her as she sings in the church She’s hypergraphic (if you know what that means, please inform
choir Sunday mornings. I contemplate, in my free me). She sings opera, her favorite color is grey, favorite foods
time, what it would be like to wear a wig every include fried okra, she has only one dimple, and when she laughs,
day and to be the only lifer (+ one) who still only her left ear wiggles.
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continues to be a mystery around her peers. As she spins back and forth on one of the many broken
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I keep a flow chart of hair colors: yearbook chairs, and reminisces of the time Mrs. Carmody chased
brunette > red > black > bleach blonde > aqua her down the hall until falling and spraining her ankle, I look
blue > magenta > current shade of grape carefully at her right ear in hopes of movement. Nothing. This
So of course, as can be assumed, I took would be my mission for the next eight minutes, when the bell
advantage of my yearbook powers to get to know would ring—to make her right ear wiggle.
!«ii this unsolved individual more than the average We talked about my yearbook aspirations, her obsession
student. But during our brief 6th period hour with Holden Caulfield from “Catcher in the Rye,” and the injustice
together, I was surprised to discover that aside of hair-color profiling. I mentioned how I have difficulty
from being a tad random, a pinch sarcastic, and a remembering my auditorium seat and then it happened... she
handful of contradictions, she’s less outlandish giggled. Unfortunately, I was so caught up in my tirade that I
than you may assume. missed any possible evidence of ear-motion. But shortly after, we
A bassist in a band (with fellow Pine were reminiscing again, and this time I would have my turn to
Crestians Daron Marino and Ryan Conrad) called play detective.
«t “Still In the Dark” (music available online), she Apparently, not too long ago, Sam was wearing baggy
k practices in her room with her 700 watt PA system, pants with all sorts of belts and strings hanging off them as she
li­ much to the chagrin of her parents. She owns a rat entered the auditorium late. As the door closed her pants in its
hinges, she thought someone was grabbing her from behind.
Screaming for help, she had already gained a few stares as she
realized her misconception. As she chortled in hindsight, I
observed that Sam Dydo isn’t as different as we interpret her to
be, she’s talented, she’s funny, and she speaks the truth—she
cannot wiggle her right ear. Robert Reiser
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