On Tuesday we started seeing several students coming down to the school nurse exhibiting symptoms that made us think it was scarlet fever.


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AMY TAN
God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS
I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS
I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS
If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS
But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS
I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS
I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS
We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS
I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM
I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with...
AMY CHUA
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT