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I had a crush on a boy named Nathan Evans. I had liked him quietly for seventeen years, ever since he stood up for me when I was four and being bullied by other kids. I even worked my way into the same university just to stay closer to him. But on the day I finally worked up the nerve to have a courier deliver my love letter, the courier totally screwed me over. By some crazy mix-up, the courier ended up swapping my love letter with a letter from a sugar daddy to one of the campus sugar babies. And even worse, that message, along with everything in the envelope, ended up posted on the campus forum. The first image showed the letter. It read: [Babe, you've been doing well lately. This is your reward. Come back to my villa in three days and serve me again. Don't forget to wear the little tail when you come.] The second image showed the contents of the envelope: six hundred dollars and an unopened condom. I explained on the campus forum, but it didn't help. Nathan and I were both dragged into online harassment. People believed what they wanted to believe, not what was true. Nathan's professor called him in. He tried to explain, but his classmates still shut him out and bullied him. In the end, he jumped from the roof. Twenty-one days after his death, I collapsed in front of his grave. When I woke up, it felt like something heavy was crushing my back. I thought I was hallucinating, until I saw my reflection in a puddle on the ground. I had turned into a pig.