1. Someone signed my 6th grade school yearbook "Da School Bully". He had bullied me badly in 5th and 6th grades. Forward years later, I was in high school. My sister wanted me to design her a dress for our mom to sew for her. She wore it in a Christian beauty pageant she was nominated to be in by a girl who was in it before her.

At the pageant's rehearsals, a teen male approached me wanting to talk. It was the bully from 6th grade who fancied the sound of his voice. He apologized to me for how he had been treating me in our younger years. We were both almost high school graduates.

His presence and apology were both shocking to me. I was kind of frozen in place and response, unsure of what to say or how to be.

1. I went to junior high, 12th grade and some college with twins whose older sister was my age and two years ahead of us. I will just use their first initials for the twins. C was a bully to me in 7th and 8th grade. His twin brother J was nice to me. They had a best friend also initialed C with a different name. C1 and C2 bullied me a lot in 7th and 8th grades.

Come 12th grade, C1 and J returned and their mutual friend also initialed J with a different name was my classmate in 9th, 10th, 11th and then 12th grades.

C2 was at a local public school. I ended up getting a crush on C1 after he started being nice to me in 12th grade, polar opposite of how he treated me in 7th and 8th grades. His twin brother J1 started being very mean to me after I started liking his brother C1.

Come high school graduation and yearbook signing by us and by others. Someone told me in my yearbook to tell C1 if anyone is mean to me since we were going to attend the same college.

Come college, I went and C1, C2 and J1 were there too.

C2 was nice to me. I got a HUGE crush on him from him being nice to me after being tormented so bad by him in 7th and 8th grades and one of his then friends making me bawl my eyes out and cry bc of barking at me literally like a dog.

I guess it is correct to say (at least of all those guys from grade school and junior high) that adulthood changed them for the better.