"I stayed for like two weeks and I just reconstructed the shooting from the events of one particular classroom in the French classroom," she said. "It was a really horrible story and unfortunately it's just repeated itself too many times in the years since" She followed people who survived or chose not to go to class that day all the way to the funeral of her professor, whom she described as 'the heart of this class'
Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.
“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”
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