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Sun, May 06, 2007

Bullying

Posted at 10:27 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

A link to a good site on bullying was posted on one of the blogs I read (probably Making Light) within a day of the arrival of an invitation to my 35th high school reunion.

I will not be attending my high school reunion.

Once, a few years after I moved here from Connecticut (about 12 years after I escaped from high school) a woman who had been in my high school class turned up in a course I was taking on herblore, or the tarot. After the first session, she apologized to me for the way I had been treated in school. She never showed up for any of the later sessions.

And she hadn't been one of the nastiest ones.

Columbine has been in the news because of the anniversary and the Virginia Tech shootings, and that always brings back bad memories.

I will not send the reunion committee an answer. The people whose names I recognize on the Reunion committee treated me fairly decently (I wonder who the others were before they married, but not enough to ask) and I'm not sure I could give them an answer that would be both honest and suitably polite.

I have had no particular contact with anyone from high school since leaving high school except at my parents' funerals 25 years ago. I had very little in common with them in school, and I'm sure my life of geeky spinsterhood has left me with even less in common with them now.

I went to ancestry.com to verify my parents' death dates because it seemed so strange that it has been 25 years since they died, but I had remembered correctly: my mother died in the fall of 1981 and my father died in the spring of 1982, so it really has been more than 25 years for both of them.

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