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Reflected in the mirrors are Lewis Foster, Charlie Green, and application of toothpaste and soap: the bathroom, third floor of Doug Hebard as they prepare for breakfast with a quick Jett Hall.
Peter Daniel, Jim Laird, and Lee Leckie begin another day, each with distinctive ablutions.
Through Rain or Shine Each Day, a Beginning
Outside the time was tolled almost diffidently into the hush and still. Inside, other bells reverberated in irritating cacophony. Ready or not, each boy was urged into a new day: the old bell, relentless.
Scraping, yawning, pushing aside bed coverings - what would this one bring? Falling weather or fine? Dismal or temperate? In grogginess they moved. Closet, hallway, bathroom. Cool water to dry throats. It ran into the eyes and over the faces; then quick or languid towelling. Some shaved and renewed promises to them- selves, their fragmentary images in steamed-over mir- rors. Others went stuporously into fresh air.
The old bell. The timeless responses. Ritualistic, yet renewing. Each day, a beginning.
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