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7-20-2008 12:01 AM153 views
Lexica says:
If you grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, during the 1970s, maybe you can help this person belatedly thank an important person from his past.

Vocabulary gap: there's no platonic equivalent of "oh, that's so romantic!" Saying "that's so sweet" doesn't quite cover it. If such a term existed, I'd use it for this story.
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7-20-2008 6:56 AM
debbyski
But during the worst period, ONE girl was nice to me. She was popular
and had a lot to lose by treating me with kindness instead of disdain.
I was so bitter by this point, I would just grunt at her when she
smiled and asked me how I was doing. I may have even been mean to her.
But she was persistently nice to me. Not intrusive. She would just
throw a friendly comment at me when we saw each other.

All these years later, I hardly remember anyone from back then. I've
forgotten names, faces, etc. But I remember her. Her actions meant a
lot, even though I couldn't acknowledge them at the time. When I came
out from under my cynical cloud, it was partly my memory of her tha...
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7-20-2008 7:37 AM
Socratoad
Kids can be very cruel. I remember reading Margaret Atwood's "Cat's Eye", a book about young girls growing up. It could have been written about the young girls with whom I attended public school.
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