Literature
The house still stands
The day of - September 14th, 2011
Ari's mother and father were practical-minded people, and as far as traditional middle class white parenting standards went, maintained a valiant effort to do only what was best for their son. Ari Stockholm never missed a day of school except for special occasions such as acquiring chicken pox (kindergarten), attending his great-grandmother's funeral (3rd grade), and catching the notorious swine flu that managed to catch the nation's--and Ari's parents'--panicked attention all while remaining relatively harmless as far as notorious diseases went. That was last year, when he was freshman at the bustling P