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Carla Pettigrew's avatar

I so would have dated you in high school. You could have taken me to museums and made me mixtapes of Prince rarities. I would have been wrapped around your little finger. I adore your blerd ass.

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J.J.O. Cilione — Jeff's avatar

Thank you for letting us in

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Lisa Lee's avatar

I have never felt that level of comfort in owning being a nerd. That is inspirational!

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Lucille Grabow Bransfield's avatar

Love all this! I was always the one walking to the bus stop with a book. Books were my friends years before and years after my own friends. Grew up with my mom being an avid reader and followed in her footsteps.

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Jayson Dawn's avatar

thank you for this.

Far from as cool as you, still, being a mixed kid in the section 8 housing in central and south new jersey, I find this extremely relatable. Being a nerd probably saved my life more than once and being a horror punk made me just crazy enough to never get beat up. Its odd to recount my high school story with my white collar artist friends and be the odd one out for never getting beat up in school, and yet further blowing their minds when I recount the days walking through metal detectors, passed the main gate security because I didn't grow up in the suburbs.

I think stories like yours give may of us 'odd ones out' a comforting sense of community and hopeful outlooks for the future. So many of us don't know where we belong, or if we belong anywhere, and hearing stories similar to our own can often be extremely reassuring. Thank you for sharing.

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RickHipson's_DarkBites_Podcast's avatar

Really enjoying these newsletters and getting to you know a bit better through them, Wrath. I gotta ask--which UFC HW did you train? I'm thinking it was around the JDS, Cain era?

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Wrath James White's avatar

Frank Mir. I was his stand-up coach for 4 years.

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Kristopher Triana's avatar

To be fair, baseball is as boring as watching dog shit dry. Great post, man. Very relatable.

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