Lemonnader.

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This episode contains discussions of sexual assault.

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For most people, the squawk of a school intercom system

lives somewhere in the abandoned hallways of our memories.

A sound that once alerted students to the day's big events and important issues fades slowly

to become a small part in a distant symphony of childhood noise.

But for Lisa Rasmussen-Oopfar, that sound never faded, and even decades removed from those grade school

hallways, it drags her back to a loss so profound.

It's just part of who she is. That noise or anything like it, instantly summons fear.

Whenever I would hear like that beep and then an announcement I would get nervous.

When Lisa hears that sound, she's no longer a 47 year old woman.

She falls through time back to Friday, March 5th, 1982, when she was a carefree five-year-old

sitting in her kindergarten class.

The most exciting thing about that morning had been the storm that brought new snow. And then she heard that

inner calm beat and the voice of someone asking her to come down to the principal's

office. Lisa walked on the long hall to the office where her neighbors did waiting and

someone told her she was going home early. No one told her why and she doesn't

remember asking any questions. I had never been checked out of school before. And she walked outside

had never been checked out of school before.

She walked outside where her eight-year-old brother Dave was standing next to their neighbor's

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