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Other children could easily catch the two balls and two sticks when they
played “Balls and Sticks,” but since Quarta had only two arms, she could
only, at best, catch one stick and one ball. For this reason, no one wanted
her on their team.
Lunch was even more difficult, since the children had to catch their own
food and Quarta had to learn how to do this with only two arms. Can you
imagine catching food with only two arms? That’d be really hard!
She did not starve, of course, but there were some lunches where her teachers had to give her food, like a
baby, and this was embarrassing.
The other children teased her, as you might expect, which made her sad, but what could she do?
It became worse as she got older. When she was thirteen and the students were going on dates, she was
often left home alone. Every now and then, her friends would all go out together and they would invite her.
But, she knew, she was too different to be considered a girlfriend by any of the boys. They would be nice to
her, but it was more like how you would treat a pet than a person. This made Quarta very sad.
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One day, the students visited the seashore during a school field trip.
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