When I was an extremely awkward teen in 1982, there was a TV show called “Square Pegs”. The lead role was played by Sarah Jessica Parker and it was about two high school girls that absolutely did not fit in.
The show snapped into crystal clarity something I had been aware of but could never articulate in any meaningful way up until then. Like the characters in the show, I was a square peg in a world of round holes.
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