Dedicated to Mrs. Betsy Goss, Dr Ann Nunan, and Dr. Nancy Baird for the protection from the cruel words and comments from Mrs. Smith! I was seven years old when my world shrank to the size of Crescent Elementary. My family had just survived our third "start over," landing in Griffin, Georgia. It was a place where my family never quite fit, a place that felt more like a sentence than a home. Mother and Pop were teachers at the local junior high school. I was a seven-year-old w