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What happens when you high school loses your carefully preplanned freshman class schedule? It turned out to be a "happy accident" (for me anyway) as I explain in this narrative.
Bookended by comments on happy accidents -- "the best things in life" as he calls them -- from fellow student Sean Williams.
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Review of Happy Accident
I like how the piece opens not with the narrator describing how this ?accident? happened, but with a poem that a boy in his old high school wrote. I think it helps bring people in. Martin has an interesting story to tell. It?s amazing (and so lucky!) that his schedule had gotten lost. This happy accident let him go into horticulture and discover his passion. When he?s talking, his voice is often shaky, and at times it seems that he is reading from a piece of paper. Even when he expresses his feelings, it doesn?t seem sincere. Other than this small detail, I think that this piece is great.