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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Their lives depend on it

After my weekend posts on bullying, I meant for my next post to be tomorrow’s sweet, uplifting guest post about a day in my life with Li’l D.

It was to the sounds of my tiny man’s morning stirrings that I stumbled upon this article about ten-year-old Jasmine McClain’s suicide last week.

My heart just about stopped at these words:
“I just lost it because she took her last breath in my arms.”

And I knew as I listened to my son’s sounds that I had one more thing left to say on the subject of abuse, of which bullying is a form:

IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT YOU ARE ABUSED.

It is okay to talk about. It should be talked about.

As I posted in a comment on Facebook:

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