I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.

Welcome to the island of misfit toys.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.