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Parents pretend Harry Potter is real and raise their daughter to believe she’s a witch

When it comes to childhood fantasy, most parents walk a line between imagination and reality. But one Reddit post—now deleted but preserved via screenshots—crossed that line in a major way.

Originally shared in the Harry Potter subreddit and then reposted on Twitter (now X), the story details how a couple has been raising their 8-year-old daughter to believe that she’s not just a Harry Potter fan, but an actual witch.

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Representative Image: One family came home to a letter that changed their feelings about their new neighborhood.

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A coward left hate in their mailbox, this family found something stronger on their block

When Marc Yu checked his mailbox in Vacaville, California, in May 2019, he found a typed letter that stunned him and his wife, Sandy. It wasn’t just anonymous, it was personal, presumptuous, and deeply racist. The author, claiming to speak on behalf of the neighborhood, demanded the Yu family leave within 60 days. Their offense? Existing while being an interracial family.

"Your interracial family is not welcome here."

— anonymous letter

The note, addressed to "the tenants at 1216 [REDACTED STREET]," opened with condescension about the Meadowlands neighborhood and its supposed standards. It claimed residents had lived there for over 20 years and took pride in its “cleanliness and quiet atmosphere.” It then veered into an outright attack:

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Your best friend is likely NOT your romantic partner.

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People who admit their spouse isn't their 'best friend' are shockingly in the majority

How many times have you heard at a wedding from the bride or groom, “I married my best friend”? Or have at least heard this phrase thrown about? If you’re in a relationship and this isn’t the case, you might be questioning if your partner is the one since they aren’t your best friend. If so, don’t panic. You’re actually in the majority.

A Colorado University study on friendship found that only 14% of people considered their romantic partner as their best friend. The research team looked at the data drawn from a national survey on friendship in 2022. The participants they analyzed were 940 people in romantic relationships, aged 18 to 85, from a wide array of backgrounds that had said in their survey that they had at least one person they considered their best friend.

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Dude, just leave her alone.

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TikToker goes off on creepy men invading her personal space and women cheer her on

A woman’s plea against two strangers that invaded her personal space has been sparking conversation about creepy men, cringe behavior, and threats against women’s safety throughout the Internet. In a viral TikTok, a woman and her friend are asking two strangers that have sat at their table at a restaurant to leave. Instead of going to sit at a clearly open and clear table, the men stay seated, making the women feel uncomfortable. This left the woman little choice but to make a spectacle for her safety.

“Go, I’m begging, on my knees, go!” she pleaded. “Go to the table where there’s no people! It’s right there, go!” The men continued to ignore her, even though she and her friend made it clear that they were uncomfortable. Not that they should need to explain, but they even stated that they were both in relationships when one of the men expressed interest in her friend. When the men continued to refuse to leave, the women tried to leave to an empty table with the men still trying to follow them. She even yelled “WITCH!” and pointed at the men as an effort to draw attention.

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"No cap, I was dead-ass pressed about understanding this language."

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'I know it's giving delulu...' Professor shocks students by giving speech in Gen Alpha slang

A polyglot YouTube sensation with 6.65M subscribers, Xiaoma has become known in the last few years for popular videos where he surprises people by speaking their language, whether it’s Mandarin, Urdu, Twi, or another of the 68 total languages he has learned. He travels the world engaging with people and celebrating their cultures. The most recent audiences he surprised, though, were made up of Gen Alpha high school students and Gen Z college graduates in the U.S.

Xiaoma spent weeks learning Gen Alpha slang, he said–where some of the slang itself is AAVE that has since been appropriated–and delivered speeches at Philadelphia’s Westtown School for their Language Week and Ohio State University for their Multilingual Language Education commencement ceremony. Amid his own self-aware, self-described nerdiness, many audience members peppered his speeches with appreciative laughter, but there were still messages in both that stood out.

YouTube polyglot Xiaoma shares the latest language he mastered: Gen Alpha slang. youtube.com

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Body image therapist Lucie Vallée is challenging people to answer a tough question.

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'Who do you want to be skinny for?': How one body image therapist tackles the 'skinny' obsession

Though she’s since pulled away from the phrase “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,” model Kate Moss sent the idea spinning into the universe in a 2009 Women’s Wear Daily interview that lit the tail-end of the aughts on fire. The body image conversation it generated is still happening today, but in new ways. Indeed, it has grown many new branches since then.

For some, this conversation continues through the body positivity movement (and its related, though not inherent, toxicity), the body neutrality movement, or many other ways of thinking that attempt to counteract the negative ways many women have come to engage with their bodies. Because the negativity itself does persist. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, “over 90% of women dislike their bodies and 97% of women have an ‘I hate my body’ moment every day.” Body image therapist Lucie Vallée has a theory as to why.

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A silly controversy

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Teen sent home over 'modest' outfit that a teacher found uncomfortable

A Canadian high school senior found herself at the center of a school controversy after her outfit—a white turtleneck under a black knee-length dress—was labeled "awkward" by school staff. The student, 17-year-old Karis Wilson, was removed from class at NorKam Senior Secondary School in Kamloops, British Columbia, and ultimately left school in tears. Her father, Christopher Wilson, spoke out about the incident in a Facebook Live video (since deleted) that quickly gained traction online.

"Today my daughter was sent home for wearing clothing that made her female teacher and her male student-teacher 'feel uncomfortable,'" Wilson wrote on Facebook, according to Daily Mail. "Centered out in front of her class and told she needs to leave class and brought her to the VP’s before she went home in tears. After asking her how she would like me to handle it she said she wanted to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen to the students that come after her. Please stand with Karis and [me] and make sure that those involved are held accountable and that this never happens again."

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Siblings bonding

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Sister who waited years to adopt brother from foster care stuns him with trip of a lifetime

In October 2023, Hannah received a phone call that changed her and her little brother's life. After five years of fighting for custody, Hannah was able to adopt her half-brother TJ. So, when TJ appeared in front of her carrying his suitcase, her heart welled up with emotions of a lifetime.

Ever since then, these two have been inseparable. Hannah posts about their journey together but one video left the viewers crying.

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