We announce the end of class, stand to attention, and bow. Some with more gusto than others, some merely nodding before collapsing into their chairs again. Four girls, in a rehearsed and giggling mass, come up to the lectern. They laugh at each other, and at themselves, look at me, and in unison say 'happy …
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