Imagine There’s No Heaven
Bartow, a sleepy little bedroom community nestled up close to Lakeland, Florida. Bartow, population 17,501. No wait. That would be 17,500 because last week while I was making the momentous decision between choosing Chinese food or Mexican for dinner, Rebecca Sedwick of Bartow was making the decision to continue to undergo the year-long bullying she had endured, or to just give up, give in, and end it all peacefully. Rebecca was 12 years old. Twelve. I think at twelve I still dreamed of one day marrying a prince and living happily ever after. This is not her family’s grief; this is the nations, the entire world’s grief. We have all lost out on a future, a contributor to society, a child, a sister, a cousin, an aunt, a spouse, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, the person who would one day grow to cure cancer, shelter battered women, or to…
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