seventeen

1 We were on page seventeen of the rudiment book, right?

2 There were seventeen dollar signs in each row.

3 The Cowboys came right back, moving fifty-eight yards in a minute to tie the score, the touchdown coming on a seventeen- yard pass from quarterback Robert Hall to flanker Marcus Grant.

4 When he was seventeen years old they had sent him north with eighty dollars hidden in his shoe.

5 Almost seventeen years of life, and he never knew what a coward he was.

6 In our seventeen months in Kilanga, thirty-one children died, including Ruth May.

7 The Minnesota hatchet murderer I wrote about earlier, imprisoned for seventeen years starting at age nineteen, still had a pretty girlfriend when he was paroled and I met him.

8 Tall Andras was young, just seventeen, but the family depended on him.

9 Now, she was seventeen and dominating on the high school fencing circuit.

10 Might have been there seventeen thousand years with nobody knowing it.

11 Wearing a blue suit with a little trim of white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket, Ivory made a striking figure, his poise like that of someone thirty years old instead of seventeen.

12 At seventeen she took county board examinations, which covered all the arts and sciences, and at eighteen she was teaching school at Peach Tree.

13 Alex is seventeen but he’s got bubonic zits and his body’s three sizes too large for him.

14 A short paragraph at the end of the obituary mentions that he is survived by a daughter of seventeen years of age, a Miss Celia Bowen.

15 She saved her money in England and now she wants to go back with him and get married even if he’s only nineteen and she’s only seventeen.

16 “So you’ll be aging out of foster care in . . . let’s see . . . you turned seventeen in January, so nine months. Have you thought about what you’re going to do then?”

17 “I don’t think they realize these are sixteen, seventeen, eighteen-year-old kids,” she once said.

18 Mother told me I wasn’t allowed to smoke until I was seventeen.

19 “Hey! How come your daughter is seventeen years old and if you put a sack over her face you couldn’t tell she was Japanese from anybody else on the street?”

20 Six months have passed, a not insignificant period of time for seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds.

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