While unpacking an obscene amount of Amazon boxes, I had a thought that the things someone can hurt another person by saying aloud are only true things.

I remember being deathly afraid of people calling me fat throughout my childhood, teen years, and into my early twenties.
Comparing my smaller selves to my current, I can look back an…
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