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There is a specific quality to the hallway of a high school when you are the person everyone has decided is the problem.
It is not loud.
It is not even always mean, not in the obvious way.
It is more that the hallway has a temperature, and the temperature is wrong for you specifically, and you feel it the moment you enter and you feel it until you leave, and in the hours in between you spend a significant amount of energy managing the distance between your face and what you actually feel.
I became very good at managing that distance.
My name is Claire Weston.
I am thirty-eight years old.
I own a fitness studio called Weston Wellness in Portland, Oregon, which has two hundred and forty members and which I started six years ago with the specific
