Shot:
"I told him I forgave him for what happened friday night and then he thanked me for not reporting him which made me feel weird but the bottom line is I’m bad at being angry at other people so all I can do is forgive them," Jackie wrote to Duffin. "And in spite of everything, I still think people are really good at heart and just make bad choices but that doesn’t make them bad people, right?"
A text message sent by a girl named Jackie to a boy she liked and was trying to make jealous by fabricating claims of a gang rape at the hands of a fictional person named "Haven Monahan" and his fraternity brothers (who were also fictional). She says that despite the gang rape she totally fabricated she still believes that people are basically good at heart.
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
A passage in the diary of Anne Frank, a young German girl who was forced to hide in an attic during the Holocaust, a tragedy during which six million or so Jews (including, eventually, Frank) were murdered by the Nazis. She says that despite enduring a genocide, she feels people are basically good at heart.
Second Chaser:
@sonnybunch If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that crazy undergrads plagiarize.
— Gabriel Rossman (@GabrielRossman) January 9, 2016