Oakland teen burned on bus ready to go to school
On their first weekend together since that terrible day of fire and fear nearly a month ago, Sasha Fleischman's family puttered around their house in Oakland on Saturday, doing as much as they could that resembled normal. Dad Karl Fleischman fried eggs for breakfast. Sasha Fleischman, 18, browsed the Internet. They took calls from friends.
The only things out of place were the bandages wrapped tightly around the teenager's legs beneath a light purple skirt.
"They itch," the youth said with a shy smile, scratching a thigh. "No big deal, though."
That it was no big deal was a big deal in itself.
Fleischman came home Wednesday from a San Francisco hospital burn unit after recovering there from second- and third-degree burns suffered when a 16-year-old boy set the teen's skirt ablaze on Nov. 4 while Fleischman was sleeping on an AC Transit bus in Oakland. Fleischman - who was named Luke at birth but now goes by Sasha - identifies as agender, neither female nor male, and police say the attack was at least partially motivated by homophobia.
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