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"How our failures to be kind to others hurt ourselves, and never stop hurting.", Nick struck me at the core. Recalling a middle-school image of a single cruel act that devasted another Carrie-like student has haunted me long into my adult years. No matter the acts of kindness and efforts of goodwill to reconcile my shame, the knowledge there is a little nugget of monster residing in some depth of my being, tamed to some degree by maturity, yet her power to undermine another still exists. This haunting truth that I compromised a personal value of compassion for another to garner some teenage measure of egoic power within has left me with deep regret and unrequited forgiveness.

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