[...] I was a teenager and so already understood myself to be something of a creature unlike others, a being of anomalous or uncertain nature, a half-formed human trying to find a way to exist among all the fully formed humans I was certain everyone else already was. I wanted to believe that this sense of lessness or halfness would one day be a sense of moreness or wholeness, but also carried with me a certainty that everywhere I might belong was elsewhere, anywhere but where I happened to be. [...]