Asher debates the benefits of being a gracious winner when for the first time at her all-girls Catholic boarding school, she not only excels at something, but surpasses all of her classmates. In a classic moral quandary, Asher strives to find the best way to wield her colossal supremacy in kickball and Old Testament trivia:
"For Old Testament Trivia, we divided into teams, except it wasn’t a team sport. It was me against everyone else in the class who wasn’t on my team. Miss Murphy would mix the teams up, even going as far as stacking me with some of the less-than-stellar students, but it didn’t matter. No matter what the tribe, what the plague, or what the mountaintop, I knew the answer. And I knew it before anyone else.
It was like God was talking directly to me, and the idea that Miss Murphy also shared this thought just spurned me on even more. After I’d shout out “Azhaziah†for the win, I’d stand on my desk and scream, “Now that’s the way you play Old Testament Trivia! Uh-Huh!!!†and furiously pump my fists in the air. “Hoo-Rah!†Sometimes I did a round of high fives with my fellow teammates. Occasionally, I danced around the room as Miss Murphy nervously picked up the pieces of the game, her shoulders a little more hunched, her movements a tad more skittish. Sometimes, when the guilt got to me, I channeled what I believed Jesus would have done if he were in my situation – I raised my arms silently in the air and did a lap around the classroom.
Everyone loves a winner."
Kickball, God, and a Bag Full of Porn
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Author(s)Sally Asher
PublisherSally Asher
ISBN / ASINB005DLQ2O4
ISBN-13978B005DLQ2O5
Sales Rank1,771,261
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