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| Being bullied? Talk about it, youths advised |
| By .thestate.com - John Monk |
| Published: 03/18/2013 |
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COLUMBIA, SC — Tianna Walker is only 17 but she held the crowd of some 100 at Finlay Park Sunday afternoon spellbound. “My whole life, I’ve been bullied,” she said. “I’ve been called every name you can think of. . . . I want the word to get out about bullying, so maybe I can save someone’s life who thought about committing suicide, like I did.” Then as she began telling about how God intervened and prevented her from taking her life, she broke down and cried, unable to go on. Walker, a senior at Brookland-Cayce., was a speaker at Columbia’s eighth annual commemoration of National Youth Violence Prevention Week Later, in an interview, she said fellow students — boys and girls — had begun viciously taunting her in kindergarten. Read More. |
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