"Hey Nozzle! Can I hang my coat on your nose?" "Hey Nozzle! Would you like this bedspread to blow your nose?" 'Nozzle' is the name we gave to Marnie Duluth. She was ugly and had the biggest nose we'd ever seen...very large nostrils too. Her jet black hair was speckled with dandruff and her glasses were very thick to account for her near-sighted icy blue eyes. She thought she was stealthy and invisible but once, in history class, I saw her eat her ear wax. She carried a flyswatter in her backpack and a blood stained scalpel in her locker which she told me belonged to her dad, the brain surgeon. She was very serious and said things like, "Fascism will become the downfall of this great country " and " My tortured soul belongs in purgatory". She had a risible side though. I told her a joke about the Dalai Lama. She laughed... then asked me if I'd take her to the movies.