Chapter 53

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With one week left in the school year mr Miller collected everyone's notebooks. Some of them still had wet ink, as if they had put it off until the night before it was due. Miller was actually more dissapointed that half the journals refused to say anything nice about chrislam or socialism, the other half refused to say anything good about satanism or libertarianism. These were clearly written by young hotheads, a year from now they would take their respective marks and likely never look back. There were two exceptions, Jaco and Lily. Mr Miller could guess why. They ofcourse seemed to be hateful towards the other side, at the same time. But that softened over the last few months, and they each acknowledged that the other side had good points, Mr Miller tried to stay out of his students' private lives, but he could now gues exactly when these two broke up, but now guessed they might get back together. Although he was a chrislamic socialist, he had to admit that Lily made some valid points. She wasn't as fanatical as some of the students, or their parents, but she was clearly a satanic libertarian. Still, Lily presented her point of view logically, didn't talk down to others. And she and Jacob had given real thought to this assignment, and to the world as it was. This made mr Miller believe he had gotten through to at least two of his students.