It’s said (truly) that most women forget the pain of childbirth; I think that we all forget the pain of being a child at school for the first time, the sheer ineptitude, as though you’ll never learn to mark out your own space. It’s double shaming – shaming to REMEMBER as well, to fee so sorry for your scabby little self back there in small people’s purgatory.

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