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November 1, 2022 4 mins

I grew up hearing that old adage, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.”

What a lie! The kids in school always made fun of me because I was from the country. They made fun of me because I didn’t know how to speak English at the time. Sometimes, my nickname was “A racial slur.”

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