I'm listening to Terrance tell his story and I wish I could tell him "DON'T LISTEN TO THOSE KIDS THEY ARE WRONG." Kids bully, it's just a fact. They are just modeling what they see at home and on TV.

I was mercilessly bullied as I was growing up. I was constantly being told how ugly, stupid, worthless I was. Even people I made the mistake of calling my friends made darn sure that I always knew how I was just WRONG and didn't fit in the world. Eventually, after enough years  of hearing this, I believed it.

I recently have been going back and scanning photographs my father took as we were all growing up (so all of my siblings could have a copy - but that's another story!). I opened these photo albums expecting to find the fat, ugly kid I always believed that I was. And you know what? She wasn't there. I saw a beautiful girl who wasted too much time and energy avoiding being picked on instead of becoming the woman she deserved to be.

I look at the pictures of Terrance on the website and I don't see a short kid. I see a boy with bright eyes and a handsome face. Terrance, those kids are wrong. They are afraid because they know they'll be working for you some day.

- Caroline Keem