But as I already knew, Idlewild wasn’t the kind of school where kids got bullied for being openly gay. Idlewild was the kind of school where theoretically it was okay for kids to be openly gay, but no one was dumb enough to test this in practice except me, and now I would never be known or remembered as anything but Nell the Lesbian. But that had always been true, hadn’t it? It just hadn’t mattered, not with Fay by my side. That was why I’d loved her: I was so excited to be gay, and she was the only one who really got that. What a stupid irony that she also ended up being the one to make me
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