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Finding one of her students making faces at
others on the playground, Ms. Smith stopped to gently
reprove the child. Smiling sweetly, the school teacher said,
"Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if that I made ugly faces, it would
freeze and I would stay like that."
Bobby looked up and replied,
"Well, Ms Smith, you can't say you weren't warned."
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The children had all been photographed, and the
teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy
a copy of the group picture.
"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when
you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer; she's a
lawyer,' or 'That's Michael; He's a doctor.'
A small voice at the back of the room rang out,
"And there's the teacher. She's dead."
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