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To someone someone Hi, my name's Zoe.

I'm here to share my story so that maybe someone out there feels a little less alone

and a little more understood if they've gone through something similar.

My story started in July 2015. I was in high school. It was the summer before my senior year,

and I needed to get a job. So I started working at a restaurant near my house, and that's when I met Ryan.

Ryan was the general manager of the store.

So he was the one who interviewed me and hired me.

I was going to be a cashier.

It was to get me through the end of my senior year and have some fun spending money for college.

I already knew where I was going to college at that point. I was

moving like five states away and I was really excited and ready to live my senior year. I had met

Ryan and everyone there that worked for him really seemed to like him and he was super outgoing and

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