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Announcement: there is going to be a Washington D.C. Bookbear Express reader meetup (!!) organized by Sarah and Pranay on Sunday, September 15 at 2pm in Meridian Hill Park. Here is the Partiful. If you want to organize a meetup in your own city, you can email me at avabearexpress@gmail.com! I remember the first friend group I was ever part of. I was 10 years old and we moved to Surrey, British Columbia after my parents bought a new house and I changed schools. My previous elementary school was in Delta and I was one of two Asian kids in my grade. Fraser Wood, my new school, was around 40% Asian. Over recess and lunch I became friends with a group of other Chinese/Taiwanese kids who all hung out with each other. Julie, Jeffrey, Laban, Tiffany, Yun Yun, Shermaine, Kenney, Tina. I fell in fitfully with them; I had no social graces, and I spent every conscious hour swamped by intense awkwardness, humiliation, and self-consciousness. We did what kids do: go to each other’s houses, play dodg

friends shape your identity + weekly recs Ava Sep 02, 2024 ∙ Paid 145 2 36 Share Announcement: there is going to be a Washington D.C. Bookbear Express reader meetup (!!) organized by Sarah and Pranay on Sunday, September 15 at 2pm in Meridian Hill Park. Here is the Partiful . If you want to organize a meetup in your own city, you can email me at avabearexpress@gmail.com! I remember the first friend group I was ever part of. I was 10 years old and we moved to Surrey, British Columbia after my parents bought a new house and I changed schools. My previous elementary school was in Delta and I was

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