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Timmy makes his own breakfast after his mother had already left for work. 'I don't cook for nobody else,' says Timmy after his brother asked him to make him some eggs.

Timmy Smith, 11, lives on a dead end street in Rockville,CT. Like that road, Timmy's perspective of life is narrow, shaped only by the small, bleak world he deals with daily. Deserted by his father at the age of four, neglected by his mother who…

On graduation day, Ed Duffy drove Marie and her family and some friends to the Civic Center for the ceremony.

Later, she and Ed did some dancing of their own.

Marie snapped herself a souvenir of Patricia Finlaytor, her biology partner, on the dance floor.

Before the Prom, Marie's daughter-in-law helped her and Ed(she met Ed on the Poconos trip-he was the bus driver) get ready.

On a senior trip to the Poconos, Marie and Ann Jones, another adult student, tried pocked billiards. Later came ping-pong, video games and in the evening some dancing. Marie said she didn't go to the athletic contest after school, though, ' for the…

Though the laxity sometimes surprised her, Marie was hardly humorless. After English she got in a little kidding around with classmate Wayne Gregg.

In a math class she looked to Scott Lassiter and his calculator for help on a problem. Eventually, the two of them ended up honor students.

She didn't have a backpack or a walkman, as Maurice Harrid did, but Marie did have her own locker.