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# Letter: Appreciating a published poem
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-appreciating-published-poem/
- Published: 2015-01-17T14:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T19:17:32.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, bullying, craig wilson, letter, letters to the editor, margarita roze, Santa Monica, westchester, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:37

Editor:

I enjoyed Margarita Roze's poem. I, too felt small, as a child and adult , even now at age 63 and 230 pounds, inside I am still the youngest the shortest " in school." I was 5 in 1st grade and 16 when I graduated from high school. Even as I fought bullies in school and won, I still felt small, unworthy etc. This came from a dad, my dad who belittled me, made me feel small. Severe spankings with his belt, Texas style. It took me till age 21 to be "big enough" to ask a female peer or coed or 21-year-old fellow student to go to dinner or to a movie. I joined the USMC at age 22 to somehow be "bigger" or more worthy to be an adult.

Craig Wilson  
*Westchester*