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Eve Drewelowe autobiographical writing, 1980s

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It seems to me that every High School Class is entitled to and should have a buffoon on general principles, if for no other reason.  Let the chips of buffoonery and [illegible] fall wherever they will and may....Likewise it occurs to me that buffoonery adds a singular measure to [illegible] up to [illegible] balance reason and judgment to the learning of a teenager and certainly learning the graces of give and take.  It is the one levening agency that is not [illegible]

      As we all have experienced and endured [illegible] can be [illegible] cruel and direct- or the appraisal of their elders, most often expose and rasp a raw nerve of an individual they are prone to aggravate.  Pickle Johnson, [own?] buffoon however, never objected to his distinctive title- he essence of an identity he obviously enjoyed. 
    Pickle recurs reminecently to me now as a replica of a gray concrete sculpture- it's square corners slightly rounded. Find kind of sculptors you might find for sale- along one of Mexico's byways today or most anyday.  He's [illegible?] face [illegible?] squarely-rounded, was surfaced I swear, like a cucumber pickle!   Pickle so well merited his descriptive name.

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It seems to me that every High School Class is entitled to and should have a buffoon on general principles, if for no other reason. Let the chips of buffoonery and [illegible] fall wherever they will and may....Likewise it occurs to me that buffoonery adds a singular measure to [illegible] up to [illegible] balance reason and judgment to the learning of a teenager and certainly learning the graces of give and take. It is the one levening agency that is not [illegible] As we all have experienced and endured [illegible] can be [illegible] cruel and direct- or the appraisal of their elders, most often expose and rasp a raw nerve of an individual they are prone to aggravate. Pickle Johnson, [own?] buffoon however, never objected to his distinctive title- he essence of an identity he obviously enjoyed. Pickle recurs reminecently to me now as a replica of a gray concrete sculpture- it's square corners slightly rounded. Find kind of sculptors you might find for sale- along one of Mexico's byways today or most anyday. He's [illegible?] face [illegible?] squarely-rounded, was surfaced I swear, like a cucumber pickle! Pickle so well merited his descriptive name.