My Middle School Bully

On my mind lately

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As a kid, I never really felt like I fit in with other kids. When I started a new school in first grade, I made friends with girls who were friendly, but I was always kind of tolerated on the edge of the group rather than right in the middle. They had all gone to kindergarten together, most of the class, actually, and that bond would last all through elementary school. I wasn’t there in kindergarten and…