In less than a week, I was set and ready to go. It was the first time I had ever been on a plane, but that part felt insignificant in comparison to the bigger adventure of college. My whole focus was on this new beginning. Everything I had was riding on this next chapter. No one knew me. No one knew my secrets. It was yet another chance at reinvention. Whoever I was when I stepped onto that campus was who I would be for the rest of my life, and I was dying to find out who that person was. In keeping my secrets I had inadvertently trapped some of the best parts of myself. I wanted so
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