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My mother ultimately did go back to work, right about the time I began high school, catapulting herself out of the house and the neighborhood and into the dense, ________(高楼林立的中心城区) of Chicago.
…, ________(如果他们出发时间碰巧一样的话).
a graceful giant with ________(不可思议的弹簧) in his legs
…devoured entire large pizzas ________(一口气的功夫).
…maintaining ________(许多的) friends and good grades while also ________(引人注目) as an athlete
He’d traveled around the Midwest on a summer ________(业余篮球队) that featured an ________(未来的巨星) named Isiah Thomas.

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Craig had been sought after by some of Chicago’s top public school coaches looking to ________(填补人员空缺).
These teams pulled in big rowdy crowds as well as ________(大学球探), but my parents were adamant that Craig not sacrifice his ________(智力发展) for the ________(短暂的荣耀)of being a high school ________(明星).
Craig’s teachers were brown-robed priests who ________(被称作父亲).
By the end of his junior year, he was already being ________(设法取得) by ________(第一级别) college teams, a couple of which would probably offer him ________(免学费).
I was lucky enough to ________(考试进入) Chicago’s first ________(磁石高中) high school.
The school was designed as a kind of ________(机会平等的天堂).
Hispanic
nerve-pummeling travel
________(起床) at five o’clock that morning…
________(公交车的长途跋涉)
________(学习的殿堂)
…powered by every multiple-choice questions they’d ________(赢得/击败) on the citywide standardized test
________(高校生)
It was a question that ________(跟踪) me through my first month.