Cartoon by Kate Isenberg
“I have a lot of friends who are just behind the cutoff,” Pritchard went on. He and Yamamoto figured that about a hundred of their classmates might vote, out of the hundred and fifty who’d be old enough. “That’s why we’re doing this,” Pritchard said. “My résumé has already gone to colleges,” he added.
Yamamoto and Pritchard split off from Woodcock and her mom and took a roundabout path back to the school. (“Maybe we can register the parkour guy,” Pritchard said.) They waved to some underclassmen playing soccer, dodged a spewing fire hydrant, and chatted with an elderly woman for a while about pecan trees and God. But they did not find anyone who was seventeen and a half.