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We used to play Red Rover during recess.  For anyone unfamiliar, kids would form two lines facing each other and link arms. Each line would take turns sending a kid charging into the opposing line to mercilessly bust through the arms of the kids they considered to be the weakest. If they busted through they could grab a kid of their choice to join their line. If they failed, they would have to join our line.

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I was almost always considered the weakest link. 

 

However underestimated, I would take my bruises at any pain, refusing to let them through. I usually linked arms with Christine, a belittled classmate who like me, would not bend or brake to the labels, or the kids, they threw at us.