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The Killer in My Class

Two years after the tragedy at Virginia Tech, creative writing professor Lucinda Roy recalls the quiet, tortured murderer in her poetry class in an exclusive excerpt from her powerful new memoir.

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You are not meant to say you are sorry after tragedies like this. People avoid doing so. And thus it is that the same fear that kept some people silent before the tragedy keeps people silent all over again.

I could not prevent the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

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