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“I’m so extraordinarily proud of her,” Mary Greenberg, Alexis’ mother, said. “As she was
35 growing up, I couldn’t imagine what she’d be like. She’s really outgoing, and she wants
Nearly 1,000 walk to support the Friendship to do everything she can for herself and other people.”

Circle of Miami Alexis has volunteered with Friendship Circle for five years. She works with children with
special needs at a community center and an early childhood development center.

Mackenzie Dorr’s commitment to the “I try to teach them that they can do anything they want to do,” Alexis said. “They can
Friendship Circle of Miami started slowly. Six years 40 help each other; they can make friends. I learned that I can do anything even though I
ago, she had to meet her school’s requirement have a disability.”
to take part in a community service activity.
5 So she chose Friendship Circle, a nonprofit that
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reasons
And she has remained ever since: Dorr said she fell
in love with the program after she was paired with
10 a little boy who was nonverbal.
* cerebral palsy: a medical condition which affects body movement and
coordination
“He helped me see the value of working with kids
with special needs,” Dorr said. “It’s not just about
what we, teens, can teach them, it’s about what
they give to us. I’ve learned how to be a good friend, which can be something lost on
15 our generation. And they teach us to be compassionate and patient.”

Dorr and close to a thousand other people gathered at the Chabad Center of
Kendall/Pinecrest over the weekend to walk for a special cause. The walk is the
organization’s sole fundraising event and the money finances the Friendship Circle
program, which includes home visits, sports, music, winter and summer camps, field trips
20 and youth groups.

“With this program, we see an incredible bond between teens and their special friends,”
Friendship Circle director Nechama Harlig said. “We hope people leave here with the
feeling that they walked for a great cause.”

Local mascots, Burnie from the Miami Heat and Sebastian from the University of Miami,
25 posed for pictures and cheered walkers on from the sidelines during the two-mile walk.
Waves of people marched through the residential area behind the Chabad Center.
They cheered, laughed, sang and held up signs that read “Walk 4 Friendship.”

Everyone, including families and friends, later enjoyed a carnival with barbecue,
cotton candy, bumper cars, rock-climbing, bounce houses, a merry-go-round
30 and music.

Alexis Greenberg, a volunteer, has mild cerebral palsy* and a seizure disorder, but she
has been seizure-free for 10 years. She said she must shield her eyes from strobe lights at
concerts and she doesn’t like loud noises: “But nothing stops me from living.”

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Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament Authors reveal the secrets of their craft
It was Paul’s afternoon to appear before the faculty of the Pittsburg High School to account How do you set about writing a novel? How did you decide which form or genre
for his various misdemeanors. He had been suspended a week ago, and his father had called at What inspires a poem? Pencil or 35 was right for you?
the principal’s office and confessed his perplexity about his son. Paul entered the faculty room, computer? Pain or pleasure? Listen to
suave and smiling. His clothes were a trifle outgrown, and the tan velvet on the collar of his interviews with some of our most celebrated PD James: I never read romantic novels;
5 open overcoat was frayed and worn; but, for all that, there was something of the dandy1 about 5 writers recorded for the British Library. I didn’t enjoy them. And as I never liked
fantasy and I’ve never liked science fiction,
him, and he wore an opal pin in his neatly knotted black four-in-hand2, and a red carnation in
What is it that makes a writer? I suppose that leaves for one’s comfort
his buttonhole. This latter adornment the faculty somehow felt was not properly significant of
40 reading the detective story. The form is
the contrite spirit befitting a boy under the ban of suspension. Beryl Bainbridge: When I write a novel, often quite nostalgic; if you’re reading some
I’m writing about my own life; I’m writing a of the earlier ones it’s a different world, it’s
Paul was tall for his age and very thin, with high, cramped shoulders and a narrow chest. biography almost always. And to make it a more ordered world, it’s a safer world –
10 His eyes were remarkable for a certain hysterical brilliancy, and he continually used them in a 10 look like a novel I either have a murder or a despite the fact they’re dealing with murder.
conscious, theatrical sort of way, peculiarly offensive in a boy. The pupils were abnormally large, death at the end.
as though he were addicted to belladonna3, but there was a glassy glitter about them which that 45 Michael Holroyd: I like to think that
drug does not produce. Ian McEwan: Ancestors, distant relatives biographers can sometimes be messengers
and the past were not part of my sense between past people and the present.
When questioned by the principal as to why he was there, Paul stated, politely enough, of family as I grew up. Something of my I believe there’s a case to be made for
15 that he wanted to come back to school. This was a lie, but Paul was quite accustomed to lying— 15 father’s exile from Scotland – self-exile bringing the dead to life, for a bit, in a way.
found it, indeed, indispensable for overcoming friction. His teachers were asked to state their really – and then exile from Great Britain, 50 To be a messenger going backwards and
respective charges, which they did with such a rancor and aggrievedness as evinced that this was has rubbed off on me and probably affected forwards is worthwhile.
not a usual case. Disorder and impertinence were among the offences named, yet each of his the way I write. When I started writing,
I didn’t feel that I was quite part of the Where do your ideas come from?
instructors felt that it was scarcely possible to put into words the real cause of the trouble, which
20 English literary world or its systems of class
20 lay in a sort of hysterically defiant manner of the boy’s; in the contempt which they all knew he Ian Rankin: There’s a kind of question
or whatever – I always felt something of an
felt for them, and which he seemingly made not the least effort to conceal. Once, when he had outsider in it. I want to answer, a theme I want to
been making a synopsis of a paragraph at the blackboard, his English teacher had stepped to 55 explore. It could be something as basic
his side and attempted to guide his hand. Paul had started back with a shudder, and thrust his Penelope Lively: When I was about 11 as the financial crash and what it meant to
hands violently behind him. The astonished woman could scarcely have been more hurt and or 12, I think, I must have said something Edinburgh as a city built on money, when so
25 embarrassed had he struck at her. The insult was so involuntary and definitely personal as to 25 about how I wanted to be a writer because many jobs depend on money. It could be
be unforgettable. In one way and another he had made all his teachers, men and women alike, Lucy [my governess] wrote to Somerset xenophobia1, it could be people-trafficking,
conscious of the same feeling of physical aversion. Maugham and said that she was governess 60 immigration policy, the G82 coming to
to a little girl who wanted to be a writer Scotland, who changes the world – do the
His teachers felt, this afternoon, that his whole attitude was symbolized by his shrug and what would Mr Maugham suggest? politicians change the world or do activists
and his flippantly red carnation flower, and they fell upon him without mercy. He stood 30 He wrote a very nice letter back saying change the world or do terrorists change
30 through it, smiling, his pale lips parted over his white teeth. Older boys than Paul had broken absolutely the right thing: “If your little girl is the world? It’s stuff like that.
interested in writing then the best thing she
down and shed tears under that baptism of fire, but his set smile did not once desert him, and 65 Hilary Mantel: The idea that kicks
can do is read a lot.”
his only sign of discomfort was the nervous trembling of the fingers that toyed with the buttons off a book is usually quite slight and
of his overcoat, and an occasional jerking of the other hand that held his hat. Paul was circumstantial. So I see something, hear
always smiling, always glancing about him, seeming to feel that people might be watching him something, think “That would make a story”,
35 and trying to detect something. This conscious expression, since it was as far as possible from and then I find its vast hinterland. No story
boyish mirthfulness, was usually attributed to insolence or “smartness.” 70 is ever simple.

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1
1 xenophobia: prejudice against people from other countries
dandy: a man who is very concerned about looking smart and fashionable 2
G8: the group of eight highly industrialized nations that hold an annual meeting to
2
four-in-hand: a type of tie knot foster consensus on global issues (CFR, 2014)
3
belladonna: medicine prepared from a plant with the same name
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