I’m not really looking at the pictures of the kids who have died in China. I’m skimming through them quickly, but I can’t pause and stare. It doesn’t take much for me to imagine a little blond boy in the rubble, and then I fall apart.
It’s actually easier to read about the vulnerability of schools in developing nations, because then it gives us something to do.
Apt. 11d 
Extra unbearability points? James Fallows at the Atlantic reminds us that the one-child policy means that those were many parents’ only child, and very possibly the four grandparents’ only grandchild.
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