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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was the outcast goth girl.  Everyone thought I was a druggie (I wasn't) and a slut (not that either) and a mute (well, I was painfully shy).  I also happened to be a math whiz.  Aced my SAT math portion, went to Cal Tech, shed my goth-wear, gained confidence with all the nerdy boys fawning all over me (it was a 10 - 1, boy -girl ratio), started to blossom, recruited to work for what was at the time a small startup in Sunnyvale, became ungodly rich by the time I was 35, quite confident at this point in my life, yes, some plastic surgery along the way also helped, ended up marrying a boy from high school actually!  Saw him at our 15 year reunion, he did not recognize me, but I had a huge crush on him throughout high school (he was a jock and a brain and homecoming king).  Our kids love hearing this story over and over and I suppose I don't mind sharing it over and over.

The Frog Princess[/quote]

that is AWESOME!  Where do you live now?  Still in CA? or DC area?[/quote]

Ha.  I'm glad that you enjoyed it.  I've never told anyone this story outside of my family.  I just thought it might inspire others.  My husband actually gave me a hard time for sharing this, on a public forum no less.  Of course, my husband is really incapable of giving me a hard time, he is such a sweetheart,  it was more along the lines of concerns about sharing something so intensely personal with so many, and also grows out of the concern that I may have "outed" myself.  After basically retiring in the face of my good fortune, we now live a very, very modest lifestyle in our aging and small, if comfortable and cozy bungalow.  Our 2 decade-old cars are the opposite of fancy.  We are very much the nondescript family next door.  I work for a non-profit I care deeply about.  I volunteer for, and give a substantial amount of money to,  organizations which seek to help the cast out and misunderstood elements of our society. My math skills are seldom used, I'm afraid, although I do help the kids with their homework (I am so amazed at how complicated the work get even for a 12-year old!), and  I suppose also used when I  tutor underprivileged kids on SAT prep.  I also tutor adults working on their GEDs.  Yes, we live in the DC area mainly because my husband is a government lawyer, and it is the kind of interesting and meaningful work that cannot be done outside of govt/DC.  Other than that, I'm just a devoted mom who dotes on the kids, helps out a lot at their school and at church, trys to live a good life, and counts my blessings every day, including the fact that in a very round about way I ended up marrying my soul mate and one true love.

FP[/quote]

LOVE this story. :)[/quote]

Me too. Are you also the one asking if you can still wear Doc Martens? You can, and you would make an awesome friend.[/quote]

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