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[wickerwoman]

I read alot and did one of those "take community college classes in high school" things so I was almost never there.

I think there might be some correlation between reading and empathy- something about all that practice putting yourself in someone else's position makes it harder to pretend the people you're picking on don't have feelings. All the biggest assholes at that age seemed to read nothing but Cosmo or Sports Illustrated.

I took some shit in middle school for being a hippy (i.e. wearing jean jackets and not washing my hair every day) but mostly I had the sense even then that I was just marking time until college.