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Jackie Kennedy Personal Narrative

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In the 7th grade I had a crush on my history and geography teacher, Ms. Nail. She was in her early to mid twenties, slim and attractive, I thought she could be Jackie Kennedy's sister. Wherever she walked into the classroom I sat staring at her every move like a mannequin more infatuated than interested in her assignments and she would not hesitate to call me out for not completing them. While she was lecturing to our class about the Russian Revolution I was imagining the two of us traveling to the Eiffel tower, she was my queen as I was laying my cape down for her – only to snap back to reality as she exclaimed “David, are you with us or are you in some far away place again?” “Oh if she only knew!” A series of embarrassing events seemed to follow me. …show more content…

Nails face appeared out of nowhere asking me how I was – I uttered something barely audible while thinking I could have spoken to the president more intelligently. One Saturday afternoon while sitting at home feeling bored, I looked up her name up in the phone book. I dialed the number and a man's voice answered. I hung up the phone and dialed again and hung up. This went on for perhaps 2-3 minutes. Half an hour later the operator called on our telephone with my mom saying “It won't happen again.” She then approached me and exclaimed a “Mr. and Ms. Nail” were very upset about crank calls made to them. I gave some excuse that I was working on a homework assignment and needed questions answered and was too bashful to speak to my teacher, the last part was true, at least. One morning in class Ms. Nail had us watch a movie titled “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” It was about a Confederate soldier sentenced to hang for being a spy. I don't want to over-analyzing the relationship between the movie and the inner conflict I was experiencing, but the gap between delusion and reality towards my teacher were not missed by me, even at age

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