Episode 12: Mysteries of Secretaries and Rock

Thirteen is a crossroads: that strange age when we want to be held and protected, yet ache to be older than we are. The fall and winter of 1979 became exactly that for me. It was a hinge year where innocence, bravado, and bewilderment collided.

This was the season when a school secretary quietly kept me safe. When a rock concert swallowed me whole. When I learned that daydreaming about something and being ready for it are rarely the same thing.

Sometimes, good people step in at the exact moment we need them.

Sometimes, we have to navigate the turbulence on our own.

And sometimes, the thing we think will make us feel grown up is a reminder of just how young we still are.

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