My freshman year I played basketball. Not particularly well, but that's not the point. I played basketball because that's what I was taught boys should do. At the end of my freshman year, I found my real basketball. Though neither orange nor circular, the high school literary magazine accepted one of my poems for publication in its Spring 2010 issue. I was hooked.

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