You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 201, when it feels like the end.

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X, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time.

I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak

into happy. Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. How are you doing? I love you so much. I hope

you're having an amazing day. I recently wrote a newsletter and it was kind

of titled Breakups and Bullies and I wanted to share a little bit more about it here. I am actually

at the end of this month going to my hometown, which is called International Falls, Minnesota,

for a dear friend's wedding.

And I have not been to my hometown, you guys, forever since like 2019.

I haven't been there with my three girlfriends for even longer, like over 10 years.

I think it was 2010 when all three of us were home together.

So it feels like that was a totally different lifetime.

Like I think that I'm finally getting into the age where there are like pockets of time in my life

that feel like they were literally a different version of myself.

I remember in middle school.

So as I've been thinking about going home, I've been remembering middle school and high school.

They were the same thing.

We had grade seven through 12 all in the same building. And it was kind of, I don't really have

great memories of it, to be quite honest. I was bullied in high school. It wasn't even that I

felt like, I wouldn't say that I was popular. I definitely didn't feel popular,

but I was friends with a lot of different groups. Like I liked the people in band and I liked

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