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“In 1990, Peter Howe at Life magazine sent me to North Carolina to photograph a special school for children with problems.
The school was a very strange place because all of the twenty or so children were in the same classroom and their problems ranged from mild behavior instability to severe schizophrenia.
Nine-year-old Amanda was the most interesting child in the class. Amanda was very intelligent and very naughty. One day I followed her home on the school bus. When the bus stopped at her house, she dashed ahead of me and ran into a nearby wooded area. I continued to follow her into the woods and eventually found her sitting in an old stuffed chair having a cigarette. She thought that I would reprimand her since I was an adult. But I said nothing.
The following Sunday, I spent the day at home with Amanda and her mother. Amanda totally controlled her mother. Amanda smoked openly in front of her.
Her 8-year-old cousin Amy was coming over, and she was very excited. All day long, Amanda and her cousin played like children. Every forty-five minutes or so, Amanda would take a break to have a cigarette.
Just before I left, I looked for Amanda to say good-bye. I found her and Amy in the backyard. They were in a children’s inflatable pool. Amanda was taking her regular cigarette break.”(via young-n-reckless)
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Starry Night by Vincent VanGogh (above) and reimagined by Alex Ruiz (below)
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Hendrik Hertzberg on the Romney-Santorum showdown; James Surowiecki on Jeremy Lin, Mitt Romney, and the advantage of good looks; Nick Paumgarten covers the World Economic Forum at Davos; Emily Nussbaum reviews “The Good Wife”; and more
Alors le vieux Sauvage: “Mon jeune ami, les mouvements d’un coeur comme le tien ne sauraient être égaux; modère seulement ce caractère qui t’a déjà fait tant de mal. Si tu souffres plus qu’un autre des choses de la vie, il ne faut pas t’en étonner; une grande âme doit contenir plus de douleur qu’une petite. Continue ton récit.”
