Ira Glass

Initially, this Jewish day school on the south side of Chicago.

You're the reason he transferred to public school, and then you turned out to go to the same public school.

But on the other hand, decades have passed, right?

They were adults now.

They both had kids.

This guy, Eddie, had actually become a rabbi.

An adult, Ben...

Didn't want adult Eddie to somehow see that he'd friended everybody else and then not him and then be hurt by that.

So he sends the friend request very quickly.

He gets a message back.

And then he goes on in his message to you to say, you know, we were kids.

I realized it wasn't your fault.

You were a kid.

And then he says, but even as we got older, I have still carried with me all those years, the burden of that experience.

And then let me ask you to read how he ends this message to you.

What did you think when you got that?

Before this, Ben had never thought of himself as a bully.

He says, yeah, as a kid, he was unruly.

He spent a lot of time in the principal's office, but generally fun-loving.

Nothing like what Eddie was describing.