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Goodbye
Dear Diary,
I bet they wouldn't even notice one less body walking in the hallways of this pathetic place. There's this saying on how God loves me and I'm his child here who will be protected by this angel on earth who I'd call “Mom”. Well God I think your mailing address was badly mixed up. Mom could care less about me… I mean does she even know if I'm still alive. I haven’t see her for about a week is she even alive? Bet anything she’s somewhere in a motel with a sleazy guy getting her fill on alcohol. UGH! Why do I even bother anymore. This place is just hell on earth and I have nowhere to go. I mean look at me I’m Fatty Patty… at least that’s what everyone at school has called me since freshmen year. Who are they to judge their all just a bunch of brainless idiots. Kellys little plastics came at me again today but this time it wasn’t just shoves and name calling like usual. Today they took pictures of me changing in the locker room and posted it on their stories.They’ve made mean memes and tweets before of my online pictures but this was different I was basically naked.God I’m so fat and ugly. Great another text I wonder what else they have to say about my cow of a body why I can’t I be skinny. Maybe then people would notice me and stop with the bullying… who am I kidding I’ve always been everyone's target why would anything change now. There's no need for me here… I just need to escape maybe find a place where I can hang around without a worry.
This was Patty’s last diary entry before she left us all. A brutal goodbye they say well no, it was her only way of saying goodbye with a message to the world of how ignorant we are of the people around us. No one ever really paid attention to her she got that right so how could you ever tell if the ghost that walked the halls was hurting if you could never see it. The damage was done.
No one will forget the screams of Kelly Martinez when she discovered Patty’s lifeless body swaying in the high school locker room. Patty hung herself on the 15th of April. Her 16th birthday. No gifts, cake, or confetti were present that day nor do I think they have ever been. What's so sickening about her death isn’t just how she left us, but why she left us. I may not have been apart of Kelly’s little group, but I just might as well have been because I saw the post, tweets, even the memes I laughed I even reposted them. I watched as they tore at her. I did nothing and my nothing was just another stab at Patty. Kelly constantly poked at her imperfection but she did this to everyone so I thought nothing of it especially since it wasn't towards me.
Today I take another breath that Patty won't, leave another footprint Patty can not, and experience the world beyond the walls of this high school that she will never get to experience. My eyes get to witness all of the world beautiful imperfections yet I ignored them and only set my sight on the perfections. I am truly blinded if I can't see the beauty in the blemishes that this world and it’s people have. Patty was a beautiful blemish on this earth meant for something greater even if she or anyone else couldn't see it. Patty might have physically left this world, but her spirit lives in here with me, and other students whose eyes have been pried open to recognize our world’s beautiful imperfections.

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