I'm in the last phases of cleaning out all the things in my grading folder to close out grades tonight, and as I shifted the papers around, I found a typed essay with JUST READ IT!!! on the top mixed in with other assignments.
Puzzled, I glanced at the title, "The Hollow Woman." Then my blood absolutely froze in my veins. If you're paying attention to all the players and points around here, then you will know that was the title of a blog of mine early in September.
Once I started to breathe again, I started to read. One of my students has taken the structure and even some of the words of that entry and sort of....written back to me. I had to read it twice because my brain stopped working the first time through when I realized whole phrases had been lifted from my own writing.
It's not signed, or rather the typed signature reads only "Anonymous," so I have no idea where it came from. It's a personal thing, the content of which I won't share here. Someone perhaps connected to what I was saying in that blog and wanted me to know it.
I am torn between two emotions: compassion and a wariness that I can't quite shake. The last time current students of mine found my blog, a couple of really bad things happened. This doesn't feel like that, though. And those students weren't writing back, either.
I'm going to take it on faith, then, that this is just somebody who wanted me to hear their response, to know they were listening. I am going to say, "Likewise." I hear what you're saying. I'm sorry it took me so long to find it. And despite what you may believe, I am sure that nothing in your past would possibly keep you from whatever future you desire.
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