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About a week before graduation...
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some roughneck, a real...
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bad kid, and his flunky...
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decided to teach me a lesson.
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I was working late at the Clarion.
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The school paper?
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And they waited until I left my locker, and...
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they grabbed me and...
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forced me into the boys' bathroom.
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I don't have to tell you what they did.
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But nothing was ever the same for me again.
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I never told this story to a man before.
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But I guess it was...
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in the way of an explanation or apology
for how strange I was in the car.
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They say time heals anything.
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I was too scared and ashamed
to tell the police.
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And I was too stupid
not to keep it a secret from my court.
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So, for one reason or another, they all left.
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They all left.
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I suppose they had other virtues.
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Loyalty wasn't one of them.
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The awful part of it was, it was the only time
I ever really needed them...
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and they weren't there.
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Thanks.
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I died.
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My heart felt like it was buried forever.
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So...
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I tried looking for cheap kicks and true love.