Imaginary Enemy by Julie Gonzalez

Author:Julie Gonzalez
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780375846380
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-03-10T22:00:00+00:00

We watched two fairly short cases. In between, Peggy explained what was going on.

“Not exactly as exciting as Law and Order, is it?” Chord said sarcastically.

“But this is real life. The futures of real people are at stake here,” said Peggy gravely. “That man who robbed the convenience store will go to a real prison and leave behind his real family. They have real bills to pay and a real father to miss.”

“Yeah, well, he was real stupid to commit armed robbery,” said Chord.

“Or real desperate. Not that that makes it right, but have some compassion, son. All of us do regrettable things at times. Some are merely more costly than others.”

“Yeah, well, that’s not what you’d be saying if I was the fool who’d held up a convenience store,” Chord countered.

During the next break I thought about what Peggy had said about the cost of regrettable choices. It made sense to me. I sure had a long list of things I wished I could take back, and my pitiful haircut wasn’t even at the top.

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