A mother's sassy-as-hell note explaining her child's school absence has gone viral.
Nicole Poppic of Clarksburg, California, wrote a detailed note to explain why her 14-year-old daughter Cara wasn't on time for school in the morning.
Ms Poppic explained to the teacher that the teenager was suffering a condition known as "teenage-ism", saying: "Adolescents across our great nation are afflicted, and there is no known cure.
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"Symptoms are multitudinous, but this particular morning she suffered from an inability to remove herself from her bed, and also felt the need to talk back to her birth-giver".