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    After the fire in Paradise, a bittersweet back-to-school for a town still reeling

    by James Rainey, Los Angeles Times Aug 16, 2019 6 minutes

    PARADISE, Calif. - No one has yet erected an official memorial on the Paradise High School campus to mark the hideous fire that burned down most of this town in November. But the signs are here.

    Scorched pines ring the expanse behind one end of the football field. A burned stump outside the campus has been carved into the school's bobcat mascot. And in Room 117, where Josh Bullock teaches social studies, there's another marker of the day no one can forget. The date on the whiteboard reads, "1 1/8/18."

    "I didn't have the heart to erase it when I came back here in January or February," Bullock told his students Thursday. "We are all still dealing with that day in some way. We are all in different places. So I am going to leave it up for today ... and then at the end of the day, I am going to erase it. And then we

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