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Five-Star Review

The past couple of weeks have been a sh**show.

A clusterf**k.

A total FUBAR.

One bad thing happened.

And then another.

And another.

The more bad things happened, the more frustrated I got.

And the more frustrated I got, the more distracted I got.

And the more distracted I got, the more mistakes I made…

Yeah. It’s been like that.

But then something happened that reminded me that maybe the universe wasn’t completely out to get me.

I started getting five-star reviews.

Several of them.

One parent wrote that her child had gained confidence. Another said I had become such a familiar part of their household that I felt like family.

And several parents mentioned something that meant even more to me than improved reading skills:

Their child actually looked forward to my class!

That one got me.

And those were just my youth classes.

The adults had some pretty great things to say, too.

One said I had given him renewed confidence.

Another said my class was the highlight of the week.

And one told me they had gotten a job promotion because of the communication skills they developed in class.

So maybe the past couple of weeks weren’t a complete disaster after all.

Maybe they were just…

a sh**show with five-star reviews.

Liz Brenner

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