Dear Diary:
Overhearing my daughter discussing where some of the eighth graders are going to high school:
“Yeah, she didn’t get into Science and her parents couldn’t afford private school, so she’s going to L-Ro.”
L-Ro?
“Yeah. You know, it’s in the east 70s?”
She was referring to Eleanor Roosevelt High School.
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