As Stanley tried to turn over on his cot, he was afraid it was going to collapse under all his weight.
He barely fit in it. When he finally managed to roll over on his stomach,
the smell was so bad that he had to turn over again and try sleeping on his back.
The cot smelled like sour milk. Though it was night, the air was still very warm. Armpit was snoring two cots away.
Back at school, a bully named Derrick Dunne used to torment Stanley.
The teachers never took Stanley’s complaints seriously, because Derrick was so much smaller than Stanley.
Some teachers even seemed to find it amusing that a little kid like Derrick could pick on someone as big as Stanley.
On the day Stanley was arrested, Derrick had taken Stanley’s notebook and,
after a long game of come-and-get-it, finally dropped it in the toilet in the boys’ restroom.
By the time Stanley retrieved it, he had missed his bus and had to walk home.
It was while he was walking home, carrying his wet notebook, with the prospect of having to copy the ruined pages,
that the sneakers fell from the sky. “I was walking home and the sneakers fell from the sky,” he had told the judge.
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