Manny

Met an eleventh grader named Manny on the uptown D train (Goes to Essex St. Academy, lives in the Bronx.)

He asked me where the bathroom was.

When talking about a girl he likes, he said, “She’s so gorgeous, man, I just wanna KISS her!”

Also, “she’s not fat, she’s not thin, she’s PERFECT!”

He doesn’t like English.

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

-Romeo and Juliet, II, ii