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What's the worst present you've ever received? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by Merlu@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even negative attention is better than no attention for some. Good chance she had a pretty bad home life, poor girl.

[–] Elextra@literature.cafe 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe but none of us saw it, even my friend who eventually became her friend later on and into adulthood.... I met her mom at least twice and she was always nice and seemed very attentive, concerned about her daughter.

We also grew up very affluent. They were too.