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From: | CNET Heads Up 24 Hours |
Subject: | [Autogen-announce] It's time to save, Bloomberg says |
Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:58:28 -0800 |
Hey Percy, It’s a dream come true. You should see. My daughter is my soul. Everything she feels, I feel too. I
feel her joy and I feel her pain. When I imagine her being subjected to bullying or harassment
I am filled with mother-protector rage. I wonder if Effie's mother ever felt
that way when she saw how her daughter was treated. If she did, I admire her for holding back because I don't
know that I could. I suspect that Effie probably kept the bulk of the
harassment to herself, but my friends and I did some things that her parents
had to know about. Prank calls, vandalized textbooks, and weekly house-eggings
top the list of things she could not hide. Effie and her family lost so much to
our antics and I am at a complete loss as to what we thought we had to gain. Teens think it is a cliché when parents tell them,
"someday you'll understand", but it is one of the truest things that
parents will ever say. One day you will understand everything your parents say
and do; all the limits they set on your life and all the advice they push on
you will suddenly make perfect sense. Much of what your parents do and say is
designed to stop you from repeating the senseless mistakes that they made as
teens. You may think that you have a right to make those same mistakes for
yourself and to learn those lessons on your own, and in some instances you are
right, but there are some mistakes that do not bear repeating. One of those
types of mistakes is being cruel to a peer. See ya, Marshall |
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