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Mr. Hershel

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Mr. Hershel is a sardonic English teacher at Pearl Bailey High School who masks his disappointment in his failed writing career with dry wit and literary references that go over his students' heads. Despite years of teaching increasingly disinterested teenagers, he maintains a well-hidden belief that literature can change lives, occasionally revealing the passionate educator beneath his cynical exterior.

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