All through church I prayed, “Lord, let me get out of here ___ anyone seeing me.” Especially Dennis Pearce, the boy I had a crush* on. He was one of the cutest boys at Neptune High School. ___ we were in some of the same classes, Dennis had ___ taken any notice of me....
I would excel. But in swapping religion for climbing, I ended up in exactly the same place: pinned down by expectations, wracked with guilt, and finding only misery in a pursuit that had been sold to me as a source of joy.
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We couldn't understand this. - Because it was painful to acknowledge? - Yes, it was painful and it was hard to come to terms with. But, on the other hand, we believed the 'Sovinformbiuro', we believed unquestioningly that [what they said] was the truth, that we would crush the ...