Shapiro the teacher hurt his back shoveling snow was the last day he was an elementary school teacher, for something in his back had broken and didn’t heal, and he had to take leave from teaching, and then he had a small surgery, which didn’t work, and then he had a whopping surgery, which worked some but not much, and by then he had used up all the vacation and disability days he could possibly take from the school district, and he had to accept a severance package that would extend his medical insurance while allowing the district to hire another able-bodied and energetic teacher. By the first days of spring, however, he had adjusted enough to what he called his new friend Tom Pain to sign up as a substitute teacher at the high school level, which is how, in late March, Mr. Shapiro and Dave and Moon found themselves back in a classroom together.Mr. Shapiro was pleased to see the boys; Dave had been one of his favorite students ever, and Moon had always seemed like a boy who would blossom later in life, probably not in high school but some years later.
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