remember walking past this one kid in the
cafeteria. The cafeteria is always like the place
for these kinds of things to happen. We were at
lunch and I remember walking past him and
hearing him whisper about this girl that I had
hooked up something like, ‘Oh, there’s the girl that blah blah blah.’ We were in a giant social
scene so obviously I wasn’t the only one that
heard it. I just remember feeling this horrible
kind of shame and I wanted to say something
but I was too scared. It was one of those
moments in retrospect where you play over and over and over again what you would have said
but the moment has passed. So that wasn’t so
nice and even if he didn’t mean it negatively it
was very much calling attention to the fact that
I was different and that that had happene