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Subject: [GenChat-L] RETARDMENT
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:57:59 EST

RETARDMENT

A teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their vacation.
One child wrote the following:

"We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa.
They used to live here in a big brick house, but Grandpa got retarded
and they moved to Florida and now they live in a place with a lot of other
retarded people.

They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass.
They ride around on big tricycles and wear name tags because they don't know
who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center, but
they must have got it fixed, because it is all right now.

They play games and do exercises there, but they don't do them very
well. There is a swimming pool, too, but they all jump up and down
in it with their hats on. I guess they don't know how to swim.

At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting
in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out.
Then they go cruising in their golf carts.

My Grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I guess she forgot how.
Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat the same thing every
night: Early Birds. Some of the people can't get past the man in the
dollhouse to go out. So the ones who do get out bring food back to the
wrecked center and call it pot luck.

My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says
I should work hard so I can be retarded some day, too. when I earn my
retardment I want to be the man in the doll house. Then I will let people
out so they can visit their grandchildren."

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