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[nny]

Having a ridiculous moment of tearyness because the kid I worked with for a year and a half got permanently excluded and the boy he always hangs out with said to me - in his odd broken English - that kid says hi and hopes I am okay.

;_;

I know they wanted him out even before I got there, and I worked hard to get him this far, but I just worry that he won't get enough time to settle into his new TA before it's time for him to leave school, and he had potential, y'know? He's a charming kid that I managed to persuade from 'selling women' as a career plan through 'mechanics' to a hesitant but heartfelt enthusiasm about being a taxi driver, about how he'd have a really nice car and keep it really clean so people wanted him to drive them.

I hate that he left school without me getting a chance to say goodbye, and I hate that I'm not gonna know what happens to him, most likely, since I hope to be moving towns in June.

I'll grow out of this kind of attachment, no doubt, but this is the first job that - through the frustration and the occasionally god-awful days - I genuinely loved.

I have my fingers crossed so hard for him.