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- From: mhirsch@dynastar.princeton.edu (Michael Hirsch)
- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
- In-Reply-To: burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:34:07 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:02:02 GMT
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- >>>>> On Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:34:07 GMT, burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) said:
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- Dakin> I think all of us can tell similar stories, but I'll post mine just
- Dakin> because no-one else has yet.
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- Dakin> I got beaten up as a youth by a gang of boys who were 2 grades above
- Dakin> us. I got into the martial arts so that wouldn't happen again.
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- [snip]
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- Dakin> But from what I hear
- Dakin> about my hometown from my old friends, the rest of those guys became
- Dakin> human beings shortly after I left, and spent a lot of time trying to
- Dakin> make friends with the people they had abused in high school. You
- Dakin> may be surprised at how life turns out Sam.
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- Yup. I just went to an _elementary_ school reunion (really). It was amazing.
- No one picked on anyone, called anyone a wimp, or teased. Non of the
- "boys" grabbed the "girls," no one talked about "cooties," we even had
- a kickball game without any fights breaking out.
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- Everyone seemed to be pretty nice, though I didn't think so when I
- went to school with them.
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