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<p>My 13th birthday

Had school this day. I set my watch to go off at the appropriate time, which just happened to be in the middle of the teacher trying to teach something. I was hoping for some sort of acknowledgement of the milestone of turning 13 years old, becoming a teenager; the teacher was more annoyed than congratulatory. Birthday bust.

We had just moved away from all my friends that would have celebrated with me, and even the teachers would have been supportive. But they were all 2,500 miles away. And I was getting rejected right off. </p>