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Sticks and Stones and Words That Hurt
Oct 8, 2020
Sticks and Stones and Words That Hurt (Fiction)
Sticks and Stones and Words That Hurt
She got tired of the way they stared, stared as if they were looking through her not at her.
It hadn’t always been that way, once upon a time she had been miss popularity, the one everyone wanted to be like.
Once upon a time she had been head cheerleader, and she had the attitude to prove it.
Now she was the one who was different, not miss perfection.
An accident, the accident that had taken her ability to walk, took something far more valuable, it had taken her self esteem.
Some still treated her as if she were the same person she was before, more often than not, it was the very ones, she used to make fun of.
Crystal was starting to see what it was to be the one that was teased, she had teased relentlessly, not knowing or caring how she hurt others. She now understood that she had been wrong.
She remembered that old childhood taunt, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words could never hurt you.
What a lie, words could pierce you, could bruise your ego, could break your spirit in a way that hurt…
