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At the back of the bus, at the back of the line, at the back of the classroom, or at the back of the register. At the bottom of the photos, the background is blurred, like a ghost. Behind the tallest or the shortest it didn't matter, she was always at the bottom of something. Last choice. Because that's how people treated her. And despite her academic excellence, her stupid "friends" of her only partially recognized what she was, only to end up emotionally disintegrating her every time. And so, while the teacher explained things that she already knew, thanks to the hours spent alone reading, she stopped to sit on the steps to smoke the last cigarettes of...