Alison is a 12-year-old girl from Canada. (Name changed for privacy.) Over the weekend her mother, a middle school principal, replied to my post about the emotional toll of the pandemic and sent me Alison’s poem about her experience (shared here with enthusiastic permission):
It’s been a year since the pandemic ended
yet my scars cannot be mended
Every br…
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