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“He will be for a long time.”
She nodded thoughtfully.
“When I grow up,” she said, “I want to be a judge like you.”
“So you can protect people?”
“Yeah,” she said. “And put bullies in time-out.”
I squeezed her hand.
Marcus once said:
“Like mother, like daughter.”
He meant it as an insult.
But he was wrong.
Like mother, like daughter.
We fight back.
And we never let bullies win.
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