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Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 five i am a teacher i teach high school in the suburbs it’s not like the city there aren’t gangs and drugs but it’s so stressful i also try to counsel my students one girl pregnant by her boyfriend got an abortion that night he raped her that was his present to her after she aborted his baby what do i say to her and what do i say every day when i see the rapist he’s a student in my seventh hour class this week alone i did two suicide interventions i counseled two teenagers how am i supposed to go to sleep at night i sit in bed awake and worry Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.