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It shouldn’t have come to this.

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I’m furious, to be honest.

I don’t get that way often. I learned when I was younger to control my anger — or try, at least. My mom made sure of that. I have two younger brothers and whenever we would get into a fight, we would usually avoid physical violence. Why? Because my mom said words were more important, more impactful. She said that speaking something, that acting a certain way — that can do as much damage as a fist.

She said it as a warning to not do any of those things, but it also told me words have power.