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"You're A Human Sparkler"

"You're A Human Sparkler"

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Dale Lykins
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As a junior high school student, I was teased quite a bit. 

I didn’t like sports, so the jocks were not my people. I was pretty shy socially, so the extroverted, popular kids were not my people. I got pretty good grades and often knew the answers to the questions my teachers asked in class. There was even a period of time when I wore my mom’s pants and …

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