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A Life Lesson Throughout life, there are certain points that you look back on and say “what was I thinking?!” or “could I have really been that stupid?” I assure you that I have a multitude of such memories, but the one that stands out in my mind was an experience that not only questioned my maturity or brain-power, but also changed the way I live my life to this day. I will never forget that hot, sticky day in late July. I was 7 years old and ready to start the second grade at the East Bay School of the Performing Arts. I was at the pinnacle of maturity, intelligence and, best of all, invincibility. Nothing could stop me; not the flu, not my mother leaning half backwards outside the back window to “clean [my] room!” and certainly not the disease or “unfortunate accidents” that happened to people on the