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The Wave In The Grapevine

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I am a student from Gordon High School. My name shall remain anonymous but I very much agree with your recent article about the Wave in the Grapevine and how it is changing students and making them do such unforgivable things. When the Wave first started I felt a sense of excitement because an experiment like this has never happened in our school before . Unfortunately, I was aghast to find out that people were using The Wave as an excuse to hurt others and I felt terrible that this is not what the movement was about. My cousin and his best friends were beaten up just a few days ago for not wanting to be apart of the Wave. School had just finished and he and his friends were just about to play basketball, when a group of seniors came up
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