🤝 Friends Like TheseAges 7-12
You Were the Bystander
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Your friend group said some genuinely unkind things to someone at school — not light teasing, actually cutting. You were there. You didn't say anything cruel — but you also said nothing at all. Later that afternoon you saw the person sitting alone, and the look on their face stayed with you.
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Does being there and saying nothing make you part of what happened?
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