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I remember sitting in my elementary school's computer lab. We were writing poetry and I was having a very easy time with the assignment. My teacher asked me to help the kid next to me. I suppose we were about 9 or 10 at the time and he was writing about a snowman. His poem sounded more like a technical manual on how to build snowmen than a poem. I tried to elicit descriptions and emotions from him through interrogation. "What does he look like?" "How do you feel when you build snowmen?" "What is the snowman like?" "Is he alive in your poem?" I tried to give him help with word choices "instead of 'cold' why not 'chilly' or 'frigid'?" "Instead of 'snow' try 'glistening white flakes.'" He was very frustrated and I didn't understand why the assignment was such a challenge for him. I think I wrote the majority of the poem. 

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