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The trouble was that this wasn't my cell phone, it was the phone on my desk that had not rung ,for all I know, since the last resident Father Edwin Gleason, lived here.\n\nI jumped out of bed, stumbled over to the desk to pick up the phone, and said \"St. Joseph's parish?\". I was more amazed to hear the voice on the other end of the line. \"Hi father, it's Kevin Brody out of the Four Four.\"\n\nFor a second I thought my ears were playing tricks. When I processed who was calling me, I missed the rest of his statement. I said, \"Kevin? Why are you calling me on this phone and what are you calling me about?.\" He said \"Sorry to bother you like this father, but you weren't answering your cell, and it's about Maria, your housekeeper.\". I was still in shock for two reasons now, what would possess him to call me on this phone and why would he be calling about Maria? .Even more disturbing was him calling me \"father\". I know Kevin for almost 30 years, about 16 of them interrupted by my time away in the seminary followed by my service as a chaplain in the Navy for eight years.  I grew up in this neighborhood and wanted to come back here to be the local priest on my way up the ladder in the church's heirarchy. Kevin did the same thing, but serving a different master.\n\nKevin is a member of the parish and he knew Maria quite well. He was also Sgt. in the 44th precinct, in the homicide department. Not the worst precinct, but no day at the beach.I looked at the clock on my desk and saw it was 2:45 in the morning. I remembered it was also Wednesday and that clicked with it being Maria's day off.\n\nI started to get that uneasy feeling you get when you know a call this early in the morning is no good. I remember on mother saying to my father when we got a call this early in the morning, \" is your dark suit clean\"? 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      "body": "![Retribution](http://i.imgur.com/BMhMWkk.jpg)\n\nChapter 1 \n\nI thought I heard ringing like I the is going up as a kid in the Bronx. It was like when I was growing up as a kid in the Bronx, we had a phone that was in the living room and had that really old time ring that you found on a rotary phone. I heard it again and thought I must be having one of those dreams that happens when you're a kid. I fully expected to wake up and see my mom standing over me saying \"Frankie, wake up, you just have a bad dream\".\n\nStill the damn ringing kept going on and on.\nI woke up , tried to come out of my stupor and realized where I was. It was dark with that familiar musky odor that I had become familiar with over the last four years. 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He was going to have to leave all his friends and meet all new people, make new friends and meet new teachers who didn’t know him. He wasn’t shy, but this was all new to him. For the first time, he really felt stress. He found a way to deal with this new stress: he ate more and it seemed to help.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/56ff804319.jpg)\n\nIn school, his eating habit increased a lot. Jeff ate his lunch and then ate more in the snack area. Even in between the classes he sometimes ate, hiding food from the teacher eating in class. This became a very bad habit. Whenever other kids teased him because of his weight, he felt stressed, and ate more food. Jeff’s food choices weren’t the best. He chose cheese snacks, chips, sweets, chocolates, just about anything that you would find in a snack room machine. He did this nearly every day. Naturally, he really started to gain more weight. \nSo much that his clothes started becoming tighter and tighter over the months. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/57004ee3fc.jpg)To add to his stress eating, he stopped doing any exercise because of the teasing and he still had to study to keep his good grades. Jeff was a very good student and had to also deal with the pressure keeping his grades up. This made him more stressed day by day.\nThere was an annual Sports Competition Day held at his school. Jeff never did like running because he got tired pretty quickly and didn’t really like any type of exercise. However, the school had made it mandatory this year. Every student had to take part in at least one event. Jeff thought a lot to take the event that included the least physical activity. So, he took part in a fun event, the pie walk race. This event was right up his alley, participants had to eat a small pie and then walk fast without dropping the pie. Almost all the kids in the race were heavier than other children at the school so Jeff felt he was in an event he could keep up in. \n\n\n In the coming days, Jeff’s eating just grew worse, and his grades were starting to suffer too. At home, his mother saw that he was really gaining weight because his clothes were not fitting, she tried to change the way they ate at breakfast and dinner. As a result, Jeff even started sneaking food from home and ate it on the way to school.\n \n ![teasing](https://i.imgsafe.org/5700f430fd.jpg)\nAll through 4th grade, his classmates continued taunting him and making fun of him. They even had a code word for him- The Hippo Boy. One day, the school district had a height and weight test for the whole 4th grade class in every school in the district. Jeff thought, “I am the probably the heaviest in the whole class and if it turns out to be true, “I will die of embarrassment because everyone in the school will know it for sure.” They will tease him even more. So, the day of the height –weight test he made an excuse to his mom that he was feeling too sick to go to school and stayed home. He pretended to be sick and slept whole day, feeling he had gotten away with not being weighed. He went to school the next day, and to his horror, he found that the testing was postponed and height and weight measurements would be taken that day. Jeff became really upset and kept on making excuses to the teacher about being sick, he was so stressed now that he really did get sick, and she sent him home. He was happy but also guilty that he had lied to escape the test. 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Listen, if you will run with me and let me keep up, then I will let you copy my homework.” Bobby said okay. Jeff felt very relieved because even though his grades were not what they were before he came to this school, he was still doing okay.\nRace day came and he and Bobby lined up for the race. \n\n![running the race](https://i.imgsafe.org/570273816e.jpg)\n\nThe race started. Everyone started off kind of at a slow pace, but the others started running faster and faster. All moved ahead of Jeff and Bobby in few seconds. Only Jeff and Bobby were running behind. For one lap, Bobby stayed with Jeff as he said he would… but in the second, and last lap, Bobby said to Jeff, “I can’t run this slow. The crowd is laughing at me.” \nJeff said, panting, “You can’t break your word,” and Jeff cried “This is the last lap.” But Bobby didn’t hear him. He took off. Now Jeff was all alone running far behind everyone else. He wanted to die, everyone was pointing at him and making more fun than he had ever heard before. This race couldn’t end fast enough. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes like an hour to him. Then he heard a voice from the crowd which said, “Hey, Hippo kid isn’t running, he is waddling.” Hearing this, Jeff felt heart-broken. He stumbled and he twisted his ankle and he fell on the track. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/57038978a0.jpg)\n\nSome teachers came and took him aside. They applied medicine on his leg but he was only thinking of the voice he heard just now. He felt no pain because he himself had pretended to twist his ankle to spare himself the embarrassment of being fat. It echoed in his mind(:)“The Hippo Kid.”\nHe came home and saw himself in the mirror thinking “Am I so fat?” The answer he gave himself was “YES!”\nThe next day, he made a deal with himself that he won’t eat food in the machine in the snack bar. But his classmates kept making fun of him, calling him the Hippo Kid every day, he started to eat even more to relieve his stress. At after school games, Jeff couldn’t run fast so he didn’t even try. In hide-n-seek, hiding for him was a joke. So, he stopped participation in physical activities at all to spare the embarrassment. Finally (,) his mom heard from other mothers about what was going on, because Jeff never let on about the terrible teasing. She advised Jeff to try to exercise even a little every day. He agreed to take their dog for longer walks. He walked to the library instead of having his mom drive him. He did what he promised but it didn’t seem to be working fast enough. He didn’t see the use in doing it.\nJeff did try to exercise but could not reduce his love for food. His classmates kept on bullying him and teasing him. Even classmates he didn’t know teased him.\nJeff at least went back to studying more to shut out the teasing as much as he could. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5704833134.jpg)\nJeff and the few friends he had, Bobby was no longer included, got ready for final exams. \nAfter exam grades were posted, Jeff found out he did very well. As a reward for doing so well, His mom and dad surprised him with a trip to a camp that specialized in helping overweight kids deal with their weight and the problems that come with being very heavy. He was concerned that if someone found out he had been to a “fat camp” next year the teasing might even be worse. However his family were supporting him, in fact, it seemed they were the only ones who seemed to care, so he agreed to go.\n It was only a few hours away, so his family could visit on weekend to see how he was doing. It also made being away from home a lot better. Everyone at the camp was pretty much in the same situation, so there was no teasing, only support. It was a really good experience and he learned from all the other kids at camp that he was not alone, so his stress became something he could deal with. \nHe started to lose (weight) through exercise and daily organized sports activities meant to build self-confidence. He learned how to eat better, healthier foods and snacks that he found he liked. He was becoming more pleased with himself and started to like what he saw in the mirror and what he thought about himself.\nThere were some classes everyone had to attend almost every day except weekends. These were not the type of classes he was used to. All they were for was to do talk about problems everyone had and how they had been dealing with them. The teacher who ran one particular class, they called them sessions, was really neat. He was old, he said he was 28 years old. He was a bit heavy too, in fact all the teachers and counsellors were kind of big. They had all had to deal with the same issues when they were growing up too.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5707a3fa28.jpg)\nThis teacher talked about how we felt about ourselves now, instead of when we first got to camp. Then he asked about school and how we were treated, how we handled our own specific issues, or didn’t handle the teasing and in some cases the bullying.\nIt was, for Jeff, a real eye opener and he started to feel better about himself for the first time in a long time. Even before he changed schools. One day toward the end of camp the teacher had a session where he did most of the talking. It was an unusual session as he talked about how you feel about yourself, but this wasn’t about us. It was about the kids who made fun of us. It was simple, he said that many people who make fun of other people do it because the feel uncomfortable themselves about what they see in us that makes them want to tease us so they feel better about themselves. Many people see something in someone that bothers them and because of ignorance, fear of having the same problem or don’t know how to deal with it, they make fun of it. When the person being teased stands up for themselves, it makes them feel more afraid of what they can’t handle or don’t understand. It isn’t fair, but it can explain why you shouldn’t feel bad about yourself, especially if you are learning to deal with your own problem, like being overweight.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/570686c3e3.jpg)\nJeff thought more about it and the last few sessions of camp dealt with this subject and many of the campers started to talk about it and started to become more self-confident and understood that there is a way to help yourself when you are being teased.\nDuring the six weeks at camp (the) most amazing thing happened, slowly, but it happened. Jeff noticed his pants and shirts weren’t fitting as well as when he came to camp. They weren’t getting tighter, or smaller because of his weight loss at camp, they were actually getting shorter. He was also growing in height. \nNobody at school could have imagined what would happen after the summer was over and school started again. When Jeff came into homeroom, almost no one recognized him. Everyone was shocked to see him. Jeff didn’t look as fat as the school year ended for the 5th grade. He had grown taller and therefore looked a lot different.\nChildren who teased and bullied, who finally recognized him, were afraid that Jeff would take revenge for the way he was treated by them, but Jeff saw them, didn’t say a word and just smiled.  \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5709246634.jpg)\n                                                              \nNow, Jeff had become the new buzz. Everyone wanted to know how Jeff looked the way he did, especially the girls. That was an issue he never had to deal with before, but he felt he might get used to it. Jeff told everyone that is was his own fault. His weight gain was from too much eating and way too little exercise. He admitted he didn’t feel very good about himself, but now he knew why and would continue with what he learned.\nJeff’s transformation worked as an inspiration for others. 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      "body": "Here is another story written by my wife and myself. Kind of appropriate as school is starting ans, unfortunately, so does the bullying. Please share this with parents with kids at risk*\n\n\n\n\n![Bullying](https://i.imgsafe.org/56fe72da6d.jpg)\n\n\n\nJeff was a child who loved to eat(.) He ate while reading, watching TV and even talking on the phone. His family was kind of big (,) so he naturally fit in pretty well. As a smaller kid most folks thought it was kind of cute .\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/56fee90c2d.jpg)\nWhen he started school, most everyone didn’t think much about it. \n\n\nThen, in the 4th grade his dad got a new job that he said would make everyone in the house so much happier because they could have and do so much more. The trouble is they had to move to another city. Jeff at first didn’t like the idea at all. He was going to have to leave all his friends and meet all new people, make new friends and meet new teachers who didn’t know him. He wasn’t shy, but this was all new to him. For the first time, he really felt stress. He found a way to deal with this new stress: he ate more and it seemed to help.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/56ff804319.jpg)\n\nIn school, his eating habit increased a lot. Jeff ate his lunch and then ate more in the snack area. Even in between the classes he sometimes ate, hiding food from the teacher eating in class. This became a very bad habit. Whenever other kids teased him because of his weight, he felt stressed, and ate more food. Jeff’s food choices weren’t the best. He chose cheese snacks, chips, sweets, chocolates, just about anything that you would find in a snack room machine. He did this nearly every day. Naturally, he really started to gain more weight. \nSo much that his clothes started becoming tighter and tighter over the months. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/57004ee3fc.jpg)To add to his stress eating, he stopped doing any exercise because of the teasing and he still had to study to keep his good grades. Jeff was a very good student and had to also deal with the pressure keeping his grades up. This made him more stressed day by day.\nThere was an annual Sports Competition Day held at his school. Jeff never did like running because he got tired pretty quickly and didn’t really like any type of exercise. However, the school had made it mandatory this year. Every student had to take part in at least one event. Jeff thought a lot to take the event that included the least physical activity. So, he took part in a fun event, the pie walk race. This event was right up his alley, participants had to eat a small pie and then walk fast without dropping the pie. Almost all the kids in the race were heavier than other children at the school so Jeff felt he was in an event he could keep up in. \n\n\n In the coming days, Jeff’s eating just grew worse, and his grades were starting to suffer too. At home, his mother saw that he was really gaining weight because his clothes were not fitting, she tried to change the way they ate at breakfast and dinner. As a result, Jeff even started sneaking food from home and ate it on the way to school.\n \n ![teasing](https://i.imgsafe.org/5700f430fd.jpg)\nAll through 4th grade, his classmates continued taunting him and making fun of him. They even had a code word for him- The Hippo Boy. One day, the school district had a height and weight test for the whole 4th grade class in every school in the district. Jeff thought, “I am the probably the heaviest in the whole class and if it turns out to be true, “I will die of embarrassment because everyone in the school will know it for sure.” They will tease him even more. So, the day of the height –weight test he made an excuse to his mom that he was feeling too sick to go to school and stayed home. He pretended to be sick and slept whole day, feeling he had gotten away with not being weighed. He went to school the next day, and to his horror, he found that the testing was postponed and height and weight measurements would be taken that day. Jeff became really upset and kept on making excuses to the teacher about being sick, he was so stressed now that he really did get sick, and she sent him home. He was happy but also guilty that he had lied to escape the test. To relieve his guilt, he ate more food that he had been hiding from his mom at home. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5701c5e4ca.jpg)This went on the rest of the year, the eating, the teasing and the embarrassment. His grades really continued to suffer as well\n1.\tIn the 5th grade this year too, Sports Competition started. Jeff searched in the list of events to find an event like the Pie walk that he did last year so at least he might be able to do something that he might be able to win. But there was no such race this year. Jeff thought hard to find some excuse and skip the competition altogether. He went to the teacher and said to her that he had headache. But this teacher said, “Don’t make excuses Jeff, last year you won the pie walk, you have to try another event,” Jeff sat disappointed knowing that he would come last in the race.\nThe bell rang and as he left class he said to his friend, Bobby, who he had met last year was a little overweight “Bobby. Listen, if you will run with me and let me keep up, then I will let you copy my homework.” Bobby said okay. Jeff felt very relieved because even though his grades were not what they were before he came to this school, he was still doing okay.\nRace day came and he and Bobby lined up for the race. \n\n![running the race](https://i.imgsafe.org/570273816e.jpg)\n\nThe race started. Everyone started off kind of at a slow pace, but the others started running faster and faster. All moved ahead of Jeff and Bobby in few seconds. Only Jeff and Bobby were running behind. For one lap, Bobby stayed with Jeff as he said he would… but in the second, and last lap, Bobby said to Jeff, “I can’t run this slow. The crowd is laughing at me.” \nJeff said, panting, “You can’t break your word,” and Jeff cried “This is the last lap.” But Bobby didn’t hear him. He took off. Now Jeff was all alone running far behind everyone else. He wanted to die, everyone was pointing at him and making more fun than he had ever heard before. This race couldn’t end fast enough. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes like an hour to him. Then he heard a voice from the crowd which said, “Hey, Hippo kid isn’t running, he is waddling.” Hearing this, Jeff felt heart-broken. He stumbled and he twisted his ankle and he fell on the track. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/57038978a0.jpg)\n\nSome teachers came and took him aside. They applied medicine on his leg but he was only thinking of the voice he heard just now. He felt no pain because he himself had pretended to twist his ankle to spare himself the embarrassment of being fat. It echoed in his mind(:)“The Hippo Kid.”\nHe came home and saw himself in the mirror thinking “Am I so fat?” The answer he gave himself was “YES!”\nThe next day, he made a deal with himself that he won’t eat food in the machine in the snack bar. 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Even classmates he didn’t know teased him.\nJeff at least went back to studying more to shut out the teasing as much as he could. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5704833134.jpg)\nJeff and the few friends he had, Bobby was no longer included, got ready for final exams. \nAfter exam grades were posted, Jeff found out he did very well. As a reward for doing so well, His mom and dad surprised him with a trip to a camp that specialized in helping overweight kids deal with their weight and the problems that come with being very heavy. He was concerned that if someone found out he had been to a “fat camp” next year the teasing might even be worse. However his family were supporting him, in fact, it seemed they were the only ones who seemed to care, so he agreed to go.\n It was only a few hours away, so his family could visit on weekend to see how he was doing. It also made being away from home a lot better. Everyone at the camp was pretty much in the same situation, so there was no teasing, only support. It was a really good experience and he learned from all the other kids at camp that he was not alone, so his stress became something he could deal with. \nHe started to lose (weight) through exercise and daily organized sports activities meant to build self-confidence. He learned how to eat better, healthier foods and snacks that he found he liked. He was becoming more pleased with himself and started to like what he saw in the mirror and what he thought about himself.\nThere were some classes everyone had to attend almost every day except weekends. These were not the type of classes he was used to. All they were for was to do talk about problems everyone had and how they had been dealing with them. The teacher who ran one particular class, they called them sessions, was really neat. He was old, he said he was 28 years old. He was a bit heavy too, in fact all the teachers and counsellors were kind of big. They had all had to deal with the same issues when they were growing up too.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5707a3fa28.jpg)\nThis teacher talked about how we felt about ourselves now, instead of when we first got to camp. Then he asked about school and how we were treated, how we handled our own specific issues, or didn’t handle the teasing and in some cases the bullying.\nIt was, for Jeff, a real eye opener and he started to feel better about himself for the first time in a long time. Even before he changed schools. One day toward the end of camp the teacher had a session where he did most of the talking. It was an unusual session as he talked about how you feel about yourself, but this wasn’t about us. It was about the kids who made fun of us. It was simple, he said that many people who make fun of other people do it because the feel uncomfortable themselves about what they see in us that makes them want to tease us so they feel better about themselves. Many people see something in someone that bothers them and because of ignorance, fear of having the same problem or don’t know how to deal with it, they make fun of it. When the person being teased stands up for themselves, it makes them feel more afraid of what they can’t handle or don’t understand. It isn’t fair, but it can explain why you shouldn’t feel bad about yourself, especially if you are learning to deal with your own problem, like being overweight.\n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/570686c3e3.jpg)\nJeff thought more about it and the last few sessions of camp dealt with this subject and many of the campers started to talk about it and started to become more self-confident and understood that there is a way to help yourself when you are being teased.\nDuring the six weeks at camp (the) most amazing thing happened, slowly, but it happened. Jeff noticed his pants and shirts weren’t fitting as well as when he came to camp. They weren’t getting tighter, or smaller because of his weight loss at camp, they were actually getting shorter. He was also growing in height. \nNobody at school could have imagined what would happen after the summer was over and school started again. When Jeff came into homeroom, almost no one recognized him. Everyone was shocked to see him. Jeff didn’t look as fat as the school year ended for the 5th grade. He had grown taller and therefore looked a lot different.\nChildren who teased and bullied, who finally recognized him, were afraid that Jeff would take revenge for the way he was treated by them, but Jeff saw them, didn’t say a word and just smiled.  \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/5709246634.jpg)\n                                                              \nNow, Jeff had become the new buzz. Everyone wanted to know how Jeff looked the way he did, especially the girls. That was an issue he never had to deal with before, but he felt he might get used to it. Jeff told everyone that is was his own fault. His weight gain was from too much eating and way too little exercise. He admitted he didn’t feel very good about himself, but now he knew why and would continue with what he learned.\nJeff’s transformation worked as an inspiration for others. Other heavy children at the school (too) wanted to be like Jeff. He told them they could ask him any questions, any time.\nOne day, Bobby went to Jeff and said, not knowing what would happen, “Jeff. That day, I left you alone on the track. You must really hate me, I am sorry.” \n\n Jeff replied, “No, Bobby. At first I never wanted to see you ever again let alone speak to you. I really want to thank you, because if you hadn’t done that, I would not have decided to lose the weight and learn about what I did and why I did it... But never do that to anyone else.”\nThen Jeff told to his class, “I want to say one thing to all of you. We should never bully or tease others because of their height or weight. Teasing and bullying made me stressed and it took a lot of effort and help from my family and some smart people to beat my stress without eating. So, guys, be friendly with everyone, no one is perfect.” \nNow Jeff participates in every athletic activity. He also has befriended and encouraged heavy children to play games and engage in other activities. \n\n![enter image description here](https://i.imgsafe.org/570a720e36.jpg)\n\nIllustrations by Karen Cortez for this story",
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