My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

He pointed toward a girl sitting a few rows back from Andrew, a small girl sitting very straight with her hands folded in her lap. He told me her name was Laura. That she had been out of school for several days. That she had come back that morning.

He said Laura had been the girl in the fire on Carver Street. The one Jacob had gone back in for.

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