They Called Me the “Ugly High School Graduate” in Front of Everyone — and My Family Expected Me to Smile and Accept It

own fuel and leaves nothing behind except the satisfaction of having burned something down, which is a satisfaction that fades faster than you expect and leaves you standing in ashes that used to be a grudge, wondering what to build next.

What I wanted was something harder to name and harder to achieve and infinitely more durable. I wanted to walk into continue reading …