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Teasing

They called her Baby Huey

and quacked at her.

She’d come home from school,

crying. Her highschool years,

a misery.

They called her sister

Baby Huey

and quacked at her.

At first she shied away

like her older sister,

but then, epiphany—

“They’re the weird ones,

not me.”

She met their stares evenly

and spoke to them with civility.

Eventually they forgot to quack.

Self-respect acted as a shield.