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"This is no fiction!" - Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers



Tue Dec 2

Houseboys

One of my students wrote a story today, and in it he kept refering to himself and his friends as “houseboys.” It didn’t seem integral to the story, but I had to know what a houseboy was. I need to be down with whatever’s hip, no?

“Shaquan, what’s a houseboy?” I asked pointing to the word.

“That says homeboy!” he answered.

Obviously.

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