What would happen if you showed up to your job/school tomorrow morning with blue hair?

@MaryJanine that was mean 😕

What did I know? (Shrug.) I was only fourteen and innocent as the newfallen snow. As for the name, well, first I ignored it, then I laughed. It was better than some of the things kids called me in the first grade ("Goosey-burger" and what all not.) But thanks for your compassion. It's appreciated.

@MaryJanine yea, I tend to believe and hope, that maybe kids aren't so mean nowadays, with all the attention to bullying and movies and series that depict it as a horrible thing.

It comes and goes in waves. My younger brother was tormented once by a kid in his class that said his mother said he was allowed to beat him up. I was in high school then, but I would pick him up and walk with him on the way home. When I was in first and second grade, I used to have one older girl come out of her back gate and say, in a threatening voice, "I'm going to KILL you!" One day, I ran to get away from her, and slipped in the alley and fell. I had a swollen and bleeding lip for a week. This was one time my mother went to the parents (she knew them) and told them what was going on. She brought me as Exhibit A.

@MaryJanine it's almost painful to read. Sorry that you had to go through that, I'm sorry that anyone had to go through things like that.

You are a compassionate person. This girl was a student at the parochial Catholic school and two years ahead of me. By the time I reached high school, she was a junior in the same school and by that time it was just so much water under the bridge.