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The Slip-Over Sweater By Jesse Stuart
The Slip-Over Sweater is a story by Jesse Stuart about Shan Stringer, a schoolboy in a small town, during winter. All the boys in his school wear sweaters with their letters on them, that they earned from playing football. He wasn't interested in getting one until his crush, Jo-Anne Burton, told him he'd look nice in one. After that, he really wanted one, since the boys would give their sweaters to girls to wear, and Jo-Anne was already wearing another boy's sweater. So the next day he went to the bank and took out a loan to buy the sweater, since his family was too poor to afford it on their own. He had enough to buy the sweater, but now he was in debt to the bank. But he was still happy, because he finally had the sweater. He gave it to Jo-Anne,
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