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“Mrs. Torres, please sit down,” she said. “We have a situation.”
“What’s going on? What did Lily do?” I looked at my daughter. “Baby, are you okay?”
“Who is Mr. Thomas?” I turned to the principal. “What is happening?”
Mrs. Davidson folded her hands on her desk. “Mrs. Torres, for the past three weeks, your daughter has been giving her lunch to a man who waits outside our school every morning. A man on a motorcycle. A man who, frankly, looks extremely dangerous.”
My stomach dropped. “What?”
“One of our teachers noticed Lily walking to the edge of school property every morning before the bell. She’d hand something to a man on a motorcycle, and he’d give her something back.” The principal’s voice was tight. “We have strict policies about stranger danger. About suspicious individuals near school grounds. We called the police.”
I looked at Lily. “Baby, you’ve been giving your lunch away? To a stranger? Why didn’t you tell me?”
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