a friend, who eventually became one of my best friends, asked me why I had a Bush sticker on my car. How could I support someone like him? “I thought you would know better,” she said, passing me on her way to class. I remember standing in the middle of the pre-first-period rush of students feeling like an imposter. Someone had called me out for something I didn’t even understand. Most of the families in 4-H supported Bush, and I thought that as a good country boy, I was supposed to, as well. I felt like I had made a mistake, despite the fact that I didn’t even know what the mistake was. At the
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