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How do you explain events that even adults can’t understand to a child?

26 November 2015

3:00 PM

26 November 2015

3:00 PM

Seeing my ten-year-old daughter, Freya, a week after the massacre in Paris, I asked her if she had heard anything about the events there. She said, in a matter-of-fact kind of way, that she had heard something, but didn’t say what it was or from whom she had heard it.

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