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retrieval system,or transmitted inany form or by any means—electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise—without theprior written permission of the publisher.The onlyexception is brief quotations in printed reviews.  \nPublished by Tanisca M.WilsonPrinted in the United States of America  \n# Bury the Bones\n\nCHAPTER ONE  \nI been fat ever since I could remember.I'm fat.My momma fat,my grandmomma fat and my daddy wasfat.Don't feel sorry for me though because even thoughI'm fat,I know my momma love me and my daddy lovedme too.My daddy died two years ago and not frombeing fat.He died in a car wreck.A drunk driver ran ared light and killed him.If you ask me,that's worse thanbeing fat,people drinking and driving and killing peopleThe teenager who did it went to jail but he'll be gettingout soon.Some justice system we got.I'm GregoryMaditty and I’m 16 years old.I’m 350 pounds and fivefeet and six inches tall.I go to Learning Academy ofNew Orleans,and I hate it.All the kids do there is teaseme with fat jokes and try to call me out to fight me.I'min special ed.at school but ain't nothing wrong with mybrain,something is wrong with them teachers.  \nTanisca M.Wilson  \nWhen my daddy was living,he would tell meto bust them kids upside their heads when they teasedme.I did it too.I got suspended every time but mydaddy never punished me for it.He said I hadta do whatI hadta do.The school calls me an at-risk kid.I don'tknow what that means,but what I do know is that thekids who tease and want to fight me all the time neverget suspended.Nothing ever happens to them.I hateschool and I hate the people in the school.If it wouldn'tbe for my momma wanting me to graduate,I woulda quita long time ago.  \nRight now I got bigger problems than school.Mymomma got laid off from her job last week and she toldme that I haveta find ajob to help with the bills.Iwouldn't mind that so much if it was only me and her.But she got some creep laying up on us and he ain'tdoing nothing.I wonder if she told him that he gotta geta job.I can't stand the man.He don't do nothing but layaround all day long and beg my momma for money.He's a skinny,tall ugly looking man.He got big olbumps in his face and his breath always stank.He'sbeen laying around for about three weeks now.I wanted  \n# Bury the Bones\n\nto ask my momma how long he was gonna be with usbut she ain't been in the mood for talking much lately.We useta be close before my daddy died.I don't thinkwe close like that no more.  \nLast night I heard him cursing my momma out.He called her all kinda names.My daddy ain't nevertalked to my momma like that.I thought for sure mymomma was gonna put him out after what I heard,butshe came out the bedroom crying,went in the kitchenand fixed him something to eat.I hated her for doingthat.She ain't even look at me when she came outta thebedroom.I kept looking at her though.We on the vergeof getting put out so I’m out here in this hot sun trying tafind a job.I got my I.D.and 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