Growing up, there was a book I read over and over again called “Just Like Everyone Else” . It was a small square book with a red cover and pen drawings of a little boy named Jonathan James. On each page of the book the author writes a sentence about a morning task Jonathan James completes, like getting out of bed, and on the adjacent page it read “just like everyone else.” You follow the overall-wearing 5 year old brushing his teeth ("just like everyone else"), eating breakfast ("just like everyone else"), getting his backpack on (“just like everyone else”) and so on. On the last page of the book, when you expect our Jonathan James to walk to or ride the bus to school (just like everyone else) you see Jonathan James put out his arms and gracefully fly through the air off to school. My mom read this book to me hundreds of times, but the thrill of Jonathan James flying off the school, not just like everyone else, never got old. In the suburb I grew up i...
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