Keep your heart open.
Please.
You were a victim of violence, and such a wound can make our hearts want to crawl back to the farthest corner of ourselves, pull down the gate and clamp the locks tight. Very tight.
Don’t.
We need you in this world. We need your guts, your titanium-strength backbone, which bullies can never break. We need your XXXL-sized voice, which already has echoed throughout this city in the name of justice and fairness and school safety.