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Sad

4 pages from My Father

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Shannon Wheeler
Feb 20, 2025
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I hate having “Sad” as my first story. It was a traumatic event. In elementary school one of my classmates was killed by her mother who then killed herself. She was Jewish and had survived a German concentration camp in WWII Germany. As kids, we didn’t understand it. One day a kid in our class was there. The next day she wasn’t there. The teachers were …

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