November 22, a day like no other USA day

     My 10th-grade mathematics teacher whispers the horrible news: “Somebody shot the president.”

     Panic starts, spreading quickly through the classroom. Everyone is talking, particularly those who only hear part of the news.

     Someone asks her, my favorite teacher, to repeat what was overheard. “The President has just been shot,” she says. Her face is now ashen white.

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