Tears and Hugs for Jordan

Hundreds of Point Boro High School students gather at vigil on Bay Head beach

All they heard from the street was the pounding of the surf. As the Point Borough High School students waited quietly in a long line to climb the stairs to the beach Monday night, they only heard the ocean crashing on the shore and their own whispers. But once they got to the top of the staircase, they could hear another sound, carried through the fog, past the lit candles lining the banisters and surrounding the portrait of Jordan Calabrese on a table on the wooden platform. It was the sound of a girl crying. Just one at first, and then a few more, and then, it seemed, as more students pressed onto the sand, the sound of sobbing came from every pocket of students in the crowd of hundreds. Some of Jordan's friends walked up to look at her …

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