Orphan Red Bird Comments

Orphan red birds
How old is a child who is in fifth grade, ten, eleven or twelve unless failed once or more; and it was then that I felt the meaning of orphan, in my heart.
He came in, in his hand a box or a bag; he was tall, young, well-built and with curly, shiny black hair that made his head look far larger than it really was.
We must have been around forty little boys lost in portions of our benches that were connected to sharing table, each with wide open mouth and stomach.
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