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Yoav Grunstein's avatar

Great story Seth, really enjoying these. Title is misleading though as we get Crime but no Punishment. Or perhaps you are the one receiving the punishment? Is hard-assed discipline so beyond the pale these days?

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Tony Ross's avatar

This one kind of made me wonder about a "where are they now?" coda, in which we catch up with this kid four years later and pick his brain...

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Arthur E Baraf's avatar

I'm still trying to perfect the warm demander, love&logic approach, where you are a hard ass, but it feels respectful

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Aaron Mann's avatar

Impossible choices some times. Feels familiar...

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Lynne Einleger's avatar

So, then what happened?

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Seth Biderman's avatar

Well, ultimately I threw in the towel and starting writing stories on substack....

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Ellen Biderman's avatar

Wow. Left me

Hanging to want to k ow the rest of the story

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Seth Biderman's avatar

It's not really finished. Don't recall details but I'm sure I gave him his after school detention.... and then the pandemic came, which saved me from my hard-ass principal charade.... And since then I've been trying to figure out how it came to be that I became Dick Vernon [https://thebreakfastclub.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Vernon] from The Breakfast Club, the ridiculous Vice-Principal we used to make fun of while watching the movie over and over at Sandra's house....

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