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Submitted to Contest #309
I remember my first days of junior high well. It was a zoo, and I was the runt—undersized, out of place, and terrified. A classic teen movie tragedy. With my stiff, prep school manner and a wardrobe best described as Costco-core, I stood out like a hen in a cage of peacocks.My parents couldn’t afford my academy anymore. Thus, I was taken. Marooned in a realm of cliques and chaos, a far cry from the genteel order I’d always known. When lunch finally came, I curled into the farthest corner of the lunchroom and made it my hiding spot.On one suc...
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