Bully: A Brief Story Of Buster Rowdy's Tragic Hero

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For the next couple of weeks before winter break, Christopher was made fun of and picked on by his classmates and the other kids at school, who’d heard about Christopher’s wish of becoming a snowman. But no one picked on Christopher more than Buster Rowdy. Buster Rowdy was the biggest boy in Christopher’s class, and to top it off, he was a Bully. His specialty was bullying Christopher. Buster loved to grab Christopher’s glasses and put his oily fingerprints on the lenses. “Look, its snow boy!” Taunted Buster when Chris entered the classroom every morning. Christopher did his best to ignore Buster and avoided crossing paths with him, but Buster always found a way to bully him. “Woops!” laughed Buster, sticking his leg out and tripping Christopher

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