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Lots of people knew Cho. Lots of people thought he was a little weird. Some people called him "the question mark guy" because on the first day of an English lit class, he put a question mark next to his name on an introductory signup sheet for class members. He could not put a name to himself.

There were opportunities to reach him that were missed, but who could have known? Cho's aspect was impenetrable; if you called out a greeting to him, he would not reply or respond. Dorm roommates knew little of him, and he rarely interacted with them in any way. But his creative writing classmates knew something was spookily, scarily wrong with him; stories that he wrote and submitted for review were full of macabre violence and bizarre weaponry.

His instructor tried to get him help, but of course was told that nothing could be done since no crime had been committed.

Cho was the big monster on campus, but no one but his teacher and a few classmates suspected the horrible truth.