There was a story on NPR I heard probably 3-6 months ago. The person being interviewed is an author (not really big time, but published) and he was talking about how in school he would be bullied. One day a bully tried to trip him and after he walked away and went into the library, the bully followed him. While he was sitting at the table, he got sucker punched. He said the event changed his life and made him much more irritable and aggressive.
So he said that when he was an adult, he got a message on facebook from the bully wanting to apologize, saying he felt guilty and didn’t feel he could teach his son how to be a decent man as long as he had this on his conscience.
The entire interview was about this subject of the exchange between the author and his bully on facebook.
Does anyone know the name of the author, or the name of the NPR show or story I am referring to? I don’t know if this is GQ or cafe society, but I figure GQ.