through a new lens
Aug 27, 2021
3 minutes
BY SUSAN ZULICK-CHECK, BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA
ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL LIÉVANO
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STUDENTS POURED INTO the halls at the school where I worked as a teacher’s aide. Watching them from the classroom doorway, I thought about my own children. Especially my son Brad, who’d died less than a year ago. Brad had once been just like these kids. Young and enthusiastic with his whole life in front of him. Drug addiction had taken that all away.
A boy
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