Loretto Academy - Laurel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Bui that’s not the difference! It’s not the people who don't care who are the true in- dividuals. There’s a difference between an individual and a loner. Very definitely. Individuals aren’t people that don’t need other people, by any means at all. It’s funny somebody would say that ... because I’m sure individuals care more ... than maybe anybody else ... about other people, I mean.

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But sometimes you can’t get to people, and you can’t force yourself on them be- cause that’s not good for them either and will probably only bring them to dislike you. You can try to help them but you can’t change their whole way of thinking. You can t force anything on them because that’ll probably just set them in their ways and they’ll be indifferent to everything. Some people have built walls around themselves and don’t want to come out... And you say we should just leave them alone if we can’t do anything because they’ll just build their walls bigger? I have a question about that. We’re being made individuals, but then you see kids not accepted; they re kids that don’t fit in anywhere. Yet there’s a definite concern to know that person. It may be harder... —Yes, I think about one time with our class, there was a girl who didn't fit in and everyone was really concerned about it. It was almost the whole group. They real- ized she was being herself and they wanted to do something so that they could un- derstand her...