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My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Carolyn Mackler

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Carolyn Mackler
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 13
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New York City
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Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.
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It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.
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On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.
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There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.
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Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.
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I guess quotes make me feel more connected.
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I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.
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I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
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And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms. What'd they say? Over their dead bodies. What did you say? I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.
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You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.
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The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
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But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.
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