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class bully, who hurled mean comments

at anyone sensitive enough to feel

bruised by them. Even though the bully

usually picked on other kids, Isabel

spent hours dissecting the meaning of

the bully’s words, what her true intentions

had been, even what the bully

might be suffering at home that could

possibly motivate her to behave so

dreadfully at school.

By second grade, Isabel started asking

her mother not to arrange play

dates without checking with her first.

Usually she preferred to stay home.

When Joyce picked up Isabel from

school, she often found the other girls

gathered into groups and Isabel off on

the playground, shooting baskets by

herself. “She just wasn’t in the mix. I

had to stop doing pickups for a while,”

recalls Joyce. “It was just too upsetting

for me to watch.” Joyce couldn’t

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