Injury illustration

1989.11

Groton, Massachusetts. Eleventh grade, Applied Math, front row. Students were telling jokes before the teacher arrived, and the boy sitting to my left was getting a little carried away with the telling of a funny story, when during one gesture of his hands his newly-sharpened pencil point broke off in the left side of my face.

There is still a small blue dot in the center of my left cheek.