News at Eleven: But the real culture shock

came the next day at school, when Jun's desk was still there, empty, sporting a giant photograph of the dead boy.

[Johanna] Aitchison tried to go about teaching normally.

As the day wore on, talk turned to numbers, and she told the students to count how many were in the class.

Do we count Jun? they asked.

from ManawatuStandard: Poet's sad inspiration

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