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Britton “Bit” Burns
John John is a member of the Low Cuts, a group of four Latimer Middle School students whose parents have cancer. He wears his hair shaved almost bald and is known as the nicest member of the group. However, all four Low Cuts concern the teachers: they’re considered to be at-risk and Ms. Wockley often scolds them, seemingly for no reason. The Low Cuts are known for stealing pocket change, but they only do this because their parents’ cancer treatments have made money tight at home—the money usually just buys extra food at lunch. In “The Low Cuts Strike Again,” the kids use their stolen change to buy cheap candies and resell them for enough money to buy Bit’s mom, who has recently begun chemo, ice cream.
John John Watson Quotes in Look Both Ways
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2. The Low Cuts Strike Again
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But the Low Cuts don’t take just take to be taking. They don’t steal for fun. Actually, they don’t even like doing it. But they do it because they have to. At least they feel like they have to. Before they named themselves the Low Cuts, they were part of another set that they had no choice but to be down with. The free-lunchers.
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“Do I want to know what y’all up to?” she asked, and they just looked at her like she hadn’t asked it. Like she hadn’t said anything. So she acted like she hadn’t said anything either. “Wait right here.”
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The other Low Cuts watched Bit the hustler, Bit who could turn ninety cents into nine bucks—into ice cream—turn into a son. A son who was scared. A son who loved his mom.
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John John Watson Quotes in Look Both Ways
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2. The Low Cuts Strike Again
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But the Low Cuts don’t take just take to be taking. They don’t steal for fun. Actually, they don’t even like doing it. But they do it because they have to. At least they feel like they have to. Before they named themselves the Low Cuts, they were part of another set that they had no choice but to be down with. The free-lunchers.
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“Do I want to know what y’all up to?” she asked, and they just looked at her like she hadn’t asked it. Like she hadn’t said anything. So she acted like she hadn’t said anything either. “Wait right here.”
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The other Low Cuts watched Bit the hustler, Bit who could turn ninety cents into nine bucks—into ice cream—turn into a son. A son who was scared. A son who loved his mom.
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