Story from Somos ADVERTISEMENT I’m 10 years old sitting alone at my desk. I finished my language arts homework, now wrinkled from excessive erasing and wet from my tears. I’m terrified I completed the assignment incorrectly and that the teacher won’t accept it in its current state. What would have taken another child 20 minutes took me hours to complete because my parents couldn’t help me. My only source of support is the old, monstrous dictionary I used to look up every word.