“My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.”

“My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.”

“Hey, I wish we hung out more in high school. Why didn’t we?”“I was hiding,” Jake said thoughtfully.“Me too.”“You?”“In my own way.”Hearing that made Jake wonder if they’d all been in hiding, if he hadn’t been the only one who’d felt alone for so much of high school.”

“The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.”