1) I was listening to an old interview with author Jon Ronson (THE PSYCHOPATH TEST, THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, and many other nonfiction books). He talked about being overweight when he was a kid, and how he was picked on because of it. He said there was one particular bully who initiated things, and one time, at the main bully’s urging, a couple of kids threw him into a lake.
Ronson said after he became a bestselling author, he tracked down the head bully and emailed him. He asked the man if he remembered him and remembered when he, along with some other kids, threw him into a lake because he was fat. Ronson told the man,
“I’m a bestselling author now. What do you think about that?”
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