{"id":2374,"date":"2021-07-20T22:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:28:47","slug":"we-cant-be-friends-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/we-cant-be-friends-a-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can\u2019t Be Friends: a True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:var(--awb-color8);border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/We-Cant-Be-Friends-Story\/dp\/1492635766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">We Can\u2019t Be Friends: a True Story<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 By Cyndy Etler\u00a0\u2013 High school sucks for a lot of people. High school extra sucks when you believe, deep in your soul, that every kid in the school is out to get you. I wasn\u2019t popular before I got locked up in Straight Inc., the notorious \u201ctough love\u201d program for troubled teens. So it\u2019s not like I was walking around thinking everyone liked me. But when you\u2019re psychologically beaten for sixteen months, you start to absorb the lessons. The lessons in Straight were: You are evil. Your peers are evil. 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