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Bill USA

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Wed Oct 30, 2013, 02:58 PM Oct 2013

From bullied to bravery: One girl's story

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/24/from-bullied-to-bravery-one-girls-story/3184789/

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- It was 3 a.m. on a Monday when Wendy Del Monte awoke to a thud.

Thinking it was one of their cats, she wandered into her daughter's bedroom. There, she found her daughter Ally in the throes of despair, shaking, gripping onto a bottle of her father's heart medication. The thud had been the bottle falling to the ground.

"The world just stopped," Del Monte recounted. "She said, 'Mom, I don't think I want to live anymore.' "

Ally was 13 and in eighth grade.
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