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| Sticks and Stones |
 Title text: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it. |
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Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words/names will never harm/hurt me.
is a nursery rhyme said, often by parents, to persuade an individual, usually a child, to ignore any name calling or mean taunts that were said by others in an attempt to hurt the individual's feelings.
This comic plays on this rhyme by having the child come in and say that although words can't harm you physically, they can change how you feel and make you feel happy or sad and the child suggests that how you are feeling is all that matters in the world.
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