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" Sometimes , talking to Richie was like talking to a five-year-old . I was like those bush Indians who stole the holy black hat of a Jesuit and swallowed little scraps of it to cure their fevers . The oven was like the gate of a personal hell . And yet he liked to tell us about what life was like " in the old days . On Oct. 9 , Boim , an honors student , was suspended for 10 days.In a three-hour , closed meeting on Oct. 22 , Boim ’ s parents , Georgia ’ s poet laureate and the editor of a Georgia State University literary magazine testified that her story was fictional and should not have been considered a threat . Because Franco 's mustache was stiff as a paintbrush with his cousins ' blood : because Hitler 's iron maw would be a bulldozer , heaving a downpour of cadavers into common graves . The Beet Queen was well-received by critics , some of whom found it even more impressive than Love Medicine . The whole class was watching now .