I threw a paper plane across the classroom.

I pleaded with the teacher, “Please, please, please, I promise—I promise to dear life!—I will never ever do it again!”

THE PAPER PLANE BY FRANK KOWAL 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 96

I was 11 years old and I threw a paper plane across the classroom. So big deal. Like I had committed the worst crime in the world.

It landed on the math teacher’s desk just as h…