““I think it all screwed us up because we didn’t get the results that people online were posting,” said Xie, now a sophomore at Los Altos High. “It was a huge disappointment to see that we weren’t the same as people online, even though we wanted it so badly.” Three years later, Xie placed third in a writing contest with a poem partially inspired by those same feelings. She wrote and submitted her piece, titled “Screens,” for an assignment for her ninth-grade English class. Part of the assignment required students to submit their work to the Be-You-Tiful writing contest.”
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