HOW I LONG FOR HE GOOD OLD DAYS...WHEN WE LOOKED AT A BEAUTIFUL GIRL WHO HAD ALL SHE WANTED...AND JUST CURSED UNDER OUR BREATH AND BLAMED OUR KARMA
The tragedy is now a global parable: a cute Irish girl moves to a new town — South Hadley, Mass. — and starts dating a popular football player. Other girls, alpha girls, get jealous. They taunt her, cross out her picture on a student-body poster, fling abuse on Facebook. It goes on for months; her mother tries to get the school to do something. Finally, on Jan. 14, after a day when she was allegedly harassed in the library, in the hallways and on her way home from school — a canned drink thrown at her, and the words "You Irish slut, you Irish whore" — Phoebe Prince went home, picked out a scarf her sister had given her for Christmas and hanged herself in a stairwell. Her sister found her. The mean girls? They logged on and mocked her death.
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Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1978773,00.html#ixzz11IJYnKwM
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