When Big Bill Bigglesby entered the first grade, students feared him because he was huge, with a face that was truly frightening. In the second year, his classmates were even more afraid of him because he had grown much taller and heavier, and his face was even more frightening due to a scar across one cheek resulting from an automobile accident in which he was not wearing a seatbelt.
Ashamed that he was unlike other students, Bill walked home sadly each day. In time, he began to notice that others had become accustomed to their giant, unattractive classmate and started accepting him as just another student, especially one girl, Frannie Fay Flannery, called “Funny-Talkin’ Frannie Freckles” by other students because she spoke with a foreign accent, and red freckles that matched her red hair covered her nose and cheeks.
