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On the day I was tortured to death by a group of vagrants in a remote mountain village, my brother Matthew was attending Valerie's concert with the rest of our family. As the show ended, Valerie covered her face and broke down in tears. "Even though Ruth bullied me since we were kids and nearly ruined my life, she's still my sister. As long as she's willing to apologize, I'll give her a chance to make things right." While the internet drowned me in a storm of abuse, Matthew sent me a message. [The moment you publicly apologize to Valerie is the moment I stop punishing you.] But what he received wasn't my reply. It was a call from the police, asking him to come identify a body. Only then did he realize that the one who had truly been bullied all along was me.