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Regan Doperak of Proctor, now 18, recalled being bullied from elementary school onward. Courtesy photo
About halfway through her freshman year of high school, Regan Doperak’s parents pulled her out.
Doperak, now 18, recalled being bullied from elementary school onward. Kids at school in her small, rural town picked on her skin tone, her weight, and made cracks about her mother, who sometimes walks slowly because of back problems and chronic pain.
“I’d always wear leggings or a