This memoir is told in six word phrases that summarize different periods of the author's life. It begins with their childhood interests like dinosaurs and dancing without boys, waiting to attend Hogwarts, and finding friends in gifted programs. The memoir follows the author through high school where they were involved in International Baccalaureate and other activities, finding comfort in fictional balls and proms. Later, the author leaves home but returns to continue personal growth with the support of friends, finding purpose through reading and community with strangers as they create their own path forward.
This memoir is told in six word phrases that summarize different periods of the author's life. It begins with their childhood interests like dinosaurs and dancing without boys, waiting to attend Hogwarts, and finding friends in gifted programs. The memoir follows the author through high school where they were involved in International Baccalaureate and other activities, finding comfort in fictional balls and proms. Later, the author leaves home but returns to continue personal growth with the support of friends, finding purpose through reading and community with strangers as they create their own path forward.
This memoir is told in six word phrases that summarize different periods of the author's life. It begins with their childhood interests like dinosaurs and dancing without boys, waiting to attend Hogwarts, and finding friends in gifted programs. The memoir follows the author through high school where they were involved in International Baccalaureate and other activities, finding comfort in fictional balls and proms. Later, the author leaves home but returns to continue personal growth with the support of friends, finding purpose through reading and community with strangers as they create their own path forward.
Presets: quiet, unyielding, intelligent, neurotic, nascent. Love expressed through dinosaurs and dancing. Never with boys; always with girls. I patiently await my Hogwarts letter. Thank god for my sister’s ambition
Gifted and talented means actual friends.
And then I grow with them. And now I’ll never leave them.
High School: (IB), Copasetics, and Grey’s Anatomy.
A Yule Ball alleviates future heartbreak. A prom always needs blue roses.
I leave (enjoy freedom) and fall.
The ground softens with friends around. I return home for mental growth.
Books sing to me once more.
I find my place amidst strangers. I make my own magic now.