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All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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