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A survivor¹ of the Columbine shooting returned to teach at the school

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In this week's StoryCorps, we hear about a student who endured the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, and later returned to the school as a teacher.

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

It's Friday, when we hear from StoryCorps. And today, we have wisdom from two survivors³ of Columbine. Mandy Cooke was a sophomore⁴ at Columbine High School in 1999. English teacher Paula Reed was also there on the day of the massacre⁵, and they came to StoryCorps to talk about the years since, as well as Mandy's choice to become a teacher.

MANDY COOKE: My first year in college, Columbine was the very first page of my psychology⁶ textbook. That's when I had that feeling of, like, whoa, people in my class are going to read about this. And I lived it. You know, I never wanted to come back to Columbine to teach. I know there's people out there who never stepped foot back into that building. And it was hard, yeah. But I didn't know that it would affect me that much.

I remember that we had a threat of some kind where they put us on lockdown. And I could see police coming down the street. Nobody could get in or out of the neighborhood. And I was doing OK. But throughout the day, it just kept getting longer and longer. And then all these kids were like, Ms. Cooke, what's going on? And I said, you know, I don't know. But [expletive] this person, whoever did this to us. And as you know, you know, I don't curse at school. But I was pissed off. I walked into the social studies office, and I called my sister, and I said, I'm not OK. That's that moment I went right back to my 16-year-old self. I was so broken that day. I could never envision - what am I going to be doing 20 years later?

PAULA REED: Right.

COOKE: I couldn't see that far. And now, looking back, I weirdly⁷ feel proud that I walk into Columbine every day. I'm doing the job that I've always wanted to do, and I get to teach some of the best kids in the world.

INSKEEP: Mandy Cooke and Paula Reed for StoryCorps. Their interview is archived at the Library of Congress.

1 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

4 sophomore   

n.大学二年级生；adj.第二年的

参考例句：

• He is in his sophomore year.他在读二年级。
• I'm a college sophomore majoring in English.我是一名英语专业的大二学生。

5 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

6 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

7 weirdly   

古怪地

参考例句：

• Another special characteristic of Kweilin is its weirdly-shaped mountain grottoes. 桂林的另一特点是其形态怪异的岩洞。
• The country was weirdly transformed. 地势古怪地变了样。