 Sexting is just something. It seems like we all do now, but not everyone does, and we need to pay attention to the reality that is going on around us. Here is a true story of a girl who had been bullied over a sex message she sent. She was secretly cutting herself, and eventually she ended her life. What you are about to hear is a real news report written by Andrew Meacham. This happened here in the Tampa Bay area in 2009. At the end of the school year of middle school, the taunting became so bad that the bullied victims' friends surrounded her between classes. They escorted her down hallways like human shields, bending off insults such as whore and slut. A few days before the victim had forwarded a new photo of herself to a boy she liked. The image found its way to other students who showed it to their friends. Soon the nude photo was circulated through cell phones at both the local middle school and high school. She'd walk into class and somebody would say, oh, here comes the slut, a friend that a bullied victim said. She certainly did not lend anything on that something was wrong, said the victim's father. She never really said anything to us. She wrote in her journal, I'm done for sure now. I can feel it in my stomach. I'm going to try and strangle myself. I hope it works. A few minutes after 10pm, her mother checked in on her to see if she wanted to come downstairs and watch television with them. The victim declined. About an hour later, the victim's mother eased open her daughter's door to say goodnight. She saw her daughter standing a few feet away. Her head lowered, her hair was hanging over her face. Then she saw that a pink scarf was knotted around the canopy of her queen-sized bed. The other end was wrapped around her daughter's neck. An ambulance arrived and took the victim to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. The medical examiner's office ruled the victim's death a suicide. The doctors who examined her body found a zone of shallow cuts up to an inch or so long on her right thigh. The purpose of this reading is to show that what we were talking about has devastating results. The fact is there are some things in life we will never be able to delete. So starting now, we need to delete before we hit send. Delete? The idea that it's just flirting. Delete the idea that the image will just stay with one person. We need to delete the idea that just one picture can't hurt. Delete the idea that we can handle these types of consequences.