It is a perfect day for a game except that everything is wrong. All week, adults have plagued them. How do you feel about playing Mar Vista? Do you want to talk about it? It’s so soon—and in this pause fall all the words they don’t say. Shooting, death. Ms. Matheson, the Mt. Adams AP chemistry teacher, gets teary-eyed and looks at her students too hard, like she is trying to preserve them in amber with her stare. Mr. Grater, the eleventh-grade English teacher, tells them they will understand it more, and differently, when they are older, which they suppose must be true, but also must be true
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