I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone else thinks of me. When I first arrived at my girlfriend’s school, I made up a story about being pregnant “so the boys won’t bother me,” and then I succeeded in alienating other people.

I didn’t mind being considered a freak, but still, I was able to get along with my girlfriend once I saw her. But at the time I wasn’t emotionally attached to her until we started hanging out together.