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"The Supremes."

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"We were born to be gray.

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We went to school, sat
in rows, ate white bread,

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looked at the floor a lot.

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In the back of our small
heads, a long scream.

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We did what we could,
and all we could do

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was turn on each other.

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How the fat kids suffered.

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Not even being jolly
could save them.

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And then there were the
anal-retentives, the terrified

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brown-nosers, the desperately
athletic or popular.

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This, of course, was training.

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At home, our parents stripped
their heads and waited.

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We learned of the
Industrial Revolution,

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the sectioning of the
clock, and the pie slices.

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We drank Cokes and
twiddled our thumbs.

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In the backs of our
minds, a long scream.

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We snapped butts in
the showers, froze all

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shy girls on the dance floor,
pinpointed flaws like radar.

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Slowly, we understood.

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This was to be the world.

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We were born insurance
salesmen and secretaries,

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housewives and short-order
cooks, stockroom boys

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and repairmen.

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And it wouldn't be a
bad life, they promised,

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in a tone of voice that
would force some of us

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to reach in self-defense for
wigs, lipstick, sequins."

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