Growing up there was a stark divide between me and the majority of my friends. It was only apparent when I’d go to their house to play or spend the night, and the process of navigating this chasm was excruciating. It’d keep me up at night thinking about how different my life would be if my world looked more like my friends’. Mine wasn’t a class issue, however, or anything to do with religion or the like – my family was solidly middle class, just the same as my friends – the only difference,…
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