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• Title: Allegory of a Cave (Short Story)
• Author : Shenandoah
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 96 KB

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Ben's father was a truck driver. He was gone as often as he was home, so Ben's mother conducted herself for most of the days in the week like a single parent, suffering no foolishness. She worked in the cafeteria at the middle school, where Ben was in the sixth grade. She'd rise at 5 a.m., bathe and dress in about fifteen minutes, drink a couple of cups of coffee, black and sugarless, and kiss Ben on the forehead at exactly 5:30, breath sour. "Up and Adam," she'd say, or that's what Ben heard, anyhow, and by the time he'd fumbled for his glasses and pressed his bare feet against the cold hardwood floor, she was gone. She didn't have a car or even a driver's license, and so she had to walk the two miles between their home and school, getting there in plenty of time to start the breakfast line for the poor kids. Ben took the school bus. There were plenty of reasons why he loved his mother, but this was one of them: At lunch, on the days when she was put on the register, standing at the end of the buffet with her apron and her hairnet and her white pantyhose, she didn't so much as acknowledge him. She would collect the forty cents she'd left that morning on his nightstand, glance at his lunch card and instruct him to "keep it down" like everybody else. She saved her razzing for the end of the day, back at home. "Who's that girl you were sitting with at lunch, lady-killer?" Or, "If I see you walk through that line again with nothing but French fries, you'll be sorry, buddy."

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