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Mamapolo2016 · F
I did, but my teen years were not ‘normal.’ I liked school well enough, and I did well enough, but it wasn’t my focus. It was just a way to pass time until I could get home to my books and my horse. I had a few excellent friends whom I still treasure, but (I realize now), they were peer group outcasts too. I didn’t then, probably because I saw what little I knew about the popular crowd from a distance. They were like walking past a full-size Barbie House. Mildly interesting, but irrelevant to my life.
College was a different story. Not about partying. I had to work a lot to afford the tuition. I did have a boyfriend and a brilliant friend who was a boy, but they were two very different people. But I earned some recognition there. I learned more about the world and felt more comfortable. The sense that I was living on a different planet than almost everybody else faded.
College was a different story. Not about partying. I had to work a lot to afford the tuition. I did have a boyfriend and a brilliant friend who was a boy, but they were two very different people. But I earned some recognition there. I learned more about the world and felt more comfortable. The sense that I was living on a different planet than almost everybody else faded.
