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usually passed when going back to my dormitory.

They denounced me first and were going to beat me.

Just as at that moment, Small White Rabbit came.

She stopped them and dragged them back. She swore

that we were innocent.

Later, Small White Rabbit’s father transferred

her to another school. Since then I had not seen her.

They said Small White Rabbit’s event had

proved that ‘Soapy was indeed a lecher’. According

to people, he wanted to do it with any young girl he

saw. Our education committee had issued explicit

orders: a teacher could by no means love a student. If

this kind of thing happened, the teacher had to be

expelled from the school. This was a very strict

decree. No teacher dared offend it. But Soapy had

dared. He dared to play with a girl student at the risk

of being expelled from the school. If he was not a

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