The Piece of Paper

by Zach Preston

edited by Jackson
Snyder
title by Quinn
Holmes
photo editor
Nightangle Eminem




One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. As the students left the room, each one handed in the papers. That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

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