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Today we had an assembly about Rachel’s Challenge. Since the people who will read this were there and already know what it is I won’t go into detail about it. It was very emotional seeing the videos of the shooting. I cried some. The real thing that got to me was after the assembly they asked people who wanted to go through the challenge training to stay. During the Friends Of Rachel trainig we were asked to come up and share something. Everyone was sharing times when they were bullied or how much they have felt the same way she had. The one thing that hit close home to me was the girl at the lunch table. I can remember my first day starting at JA. It was my 8th grade year and I was the new kid. The first few days I didn’t really hangout with anyone, but the next day I met an incredible girl and she became one of my best friends and she showed me it was OK to be a bit different
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wow tear jerker.
Maybe i shouldn’t mess with you on such a serious subject… nahhhh .