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The Bert Show

Would You Accept An Apology From Your Middle School Bully?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Would you accept an apology from your school bully? Why or why not?

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The Bert show

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If you were bullied as a kid growing up, you probably just wanted an apology at some point,

0:07.0

whether it was actually when it happened when you were a kid or years later,

0:11.0

you probably would have appreciated it.

0:12.8

And somebody got an unexpected message from their childhood bully

0:17.0

that said, healed them in so many ways once they finally got the apology.

0:21.6

So this came from a viral Facebook post from a woman

0:24.4

named Holly and she says life really does align in weird ways. My bully from

0:30.1

fifth grade who snapped my glasses in front of his friends just found me on

0:34.6

social media a few weeks ago. He wrote me a long apology saying how he was now a

0:39.6

father to a three-year-old little girl and was taking her to get her first pair of glasses in the

0:45.2

next few days and it brought back what he did. He said he couldn't handle the idea of

0:50.3

someone ever doing that to her. My first instinct was to tell him to get

0:54.0

lost but I realized I was getting what I always prayed for. I just wanted the people

0:58.5

who were mean to me to eventually understand it even if it took a personal experience to relate to in 14 years to open their

1:06.1

eyes.

1:07.1

A piece of me healed in that moment as I gave him glasses advice for his daughter because I was the

1:11.4

same age when I got my first pair.

1:13.0

Kids are really ruthless but it takes a healed adult to reach out to apologize

1:18.4

and there is always time to change it's never too late.

1:21.4

That is pretty cool.

1:22.2

I know right? You

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