Dumbo Feather

How to Belong

For years I’ve thought there’s a connection between being alone and belonging. At parties, when I was feeling like I didn’t belong in my own skin, I began looking around and seeing other people who—like me—were also unoccupied. Some of them looked as awkward as I felt. But I began to I wondered.

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