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wheezy, yet adoring tone. She made sure to hold her grin in place for the kids.
    “Good morning Ms. Amelia,” they all responded at once. After all, if they didn’t do it right the first time, they knew they would practice their greetings until their teacher was satisfied.
    “Now, today we are going to go over the most important topic in our group lessons. In fact, this lesson will give you the building blocks for understanding our entire wonderful system.”
    Ms. Amelia’s sing-song voice came to a halt as she started writing a big word on the board. “Our discussion today will about,” she paused for effect and stepped back from the board so that everyone could see, “feelings.”
    Ms. Amelia clearly expected a big show of excitement over this revelation. Cyrus could only tilt his head to the side, not entirely understanding what the big deal was. Apparently, the class shared Cyrus’s lack of clarification for their teacher went into a very quick explanation mode.
    “Feelings are the emotions inside of all of us. These emotions  can be either positive, which means good or negative, which means bad. Our enlightened society is made so that only positive emotions exist. To show you why this is so important, I have prepared a brief history lesson.”
    She quickly wrote the words “positive” and “negative” on the board. Then, she listed a few words underneath both categories before she capped her pen and turned back to the class.
    “Sad, angry, lonely, guilty, and tired. All of these feelings are negative emotions. Happy, joyful, peace and contentment are all positive emotions. Through our new system, these negative feelings have all but been eliminated. All we feel are positive emotions. But,” Ms. Amelia held up a finger and her gaze swept over them all with an unusual intensity, “it wasn’t always like this.”  
    She quickly wrote two large words on the board and underlined them. “Uncivilized Times is the expression we use when we talk about the way people lived before the perfect world came to be. Back in the Uncivilized Times, people used to take feelings for granted. Some people were very happy during these times, while others were very sad. Some people were at peace while others were so very angry. Some people lived lives of joy, while others were lonely and tired. These differences in feelings were very common in Uncivilized Times.
    “These people and their negative emotions caused trouble for everyone in society. They wouldn’t trust those who were in charge of the former system. Their negative emotions made them feel as if they couldn’t trust those in charge or any who supported them. These negative emotions led to fights with others in society, creating more negative emotions.
    “Eventually, a handful of very smart people began studying emotions in humans to find out how to prevent negative emotions. Through their hard work, they discovered the two sources of the problem. Those sources were fairness and control.”
    Ms. Amelia wrote the word ‘fair’ on the board and underlined it several times. She then wrote a definition after it so that they could understand its meaning.
    “The first reason that everyone’s feelings were different was because not everything was fair in Uncivilized Times. Fair means that things are equal for everyone. Now, could everyone tell me what the definition of fair is?”
    “Fair means that things are equal for everyone,” the class read off the board to her. She clapped her hands together in delight.
    “Oh, you’re all such quick learners,” she said with another big smile. “Now, why weren’t things fair? Ask me, ‘Why weren’t things fair, Ms. Amelia?’ Go on now.”
    “Why weren’t things fair, Ms. Amelia?”
    “They weren’t fair because some people had things that others didn’t,” Ms. Amelia responded with big wide eyes and a vigorous nod. She wrote her answer down on the board as she continued to explain it to them. “At first, all