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The twelve o'clock lunch bell sounds in a high pitch but is quickly drowned out by the 4th grade students getting out of their desk and hustling to the front of the class room talking loudly about what they are going to do at recess. As the students file out of the classroom one young boy remains standing at the teacher's desk. His name is Jack. As he waits impatiently for his teacher, he rips off the Harry Potter band-aid on his left hand middle finger tosses it in the garbage and says "Score!" His teacher finally walks back into the classroom and ushers him out the door and they head down the hallway. This has been Jack's routine everyday since he has been in elementary school. His teacher drops him off at the nurse's office and they part ways for lunch. Although Jack only spends a few minutes in the nurse's office, it seems like hours everyday. He is always late to lunch never getting to pick who he sits next to because Jack has diabetes. Everyday when Jack is at school he has......

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