re: #52 Dark_Falcon

I was mostly on the receiving end, but I was once one of a few “Me-Too”s to a pair of jerks in grade school who taunted a Orthodox Jewish boy who turned out to have a brain tumor that killed him less than a year after I first met him. When his younger brother began at the same school he told me of the pain I’d caused and told me he’d never forgive me for it. Those words stuck, and I’ve never forgiven myself either. I learned for the first time just how much of an asshole I could be and that discovery has haunted me ever since.

Kudos for letting that out, it’s tough. I had a similar situation in school. Was a kid in the band, we both were sax players. Everybody gave him shit for how he looked, how weird he was. Always missing school for some reason.

Kid died…I think, shit, junior year? Leukemia (not sure the exact variant).