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Hey Colette,

 

 

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,

 

Tovar

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