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Because, as you said, the money is annoying, but the mindset your “friend” holds is the more hurtful piece of this.

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“Our babies sometimes say hurtful things,” she said.

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Asked whether he had perhaps said things to fellow pupils that he had not intended to be hurtful or racist, but they took it that way, he said: "I hope not."

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The last few weeks have been particularly hurtful, she said, when she sees commenters on social media deriding food stamp recipients as “lazy.”

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I think that assuming can be hurtful too.

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