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Compassion

EXT. HIGH SCHOOL – DAY
Los Angeles. A loud school bell rings. Within seconds ethnically diversified boys and girls in uniform, wearing identical sunglasses, bolt from the building. In small groups running, laughing, yelling they jubilantly take off through the gate of the schoolyard. The groups peter out and we end up following… Senior JOCELYN DREW, African American, wearing apple glasses, yells good-bye to her best friend and hurries on her way.
JOCELYN
(voice over)
That’s me. Jocelyn Drew. I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was fifteen. If I only knew then what I know now…