my heart is a glorious machine;

It was mostly just staggering to realise how very separate I had become, without intending to be... most of the other people my age seemed so alien. After spending most of my people-interaction with the Meholick girls and Alessandra and Victoria and Jonathan and, well, grown-ups, I sort of had an image of myself as quirky, to be sure, but... approachable? Not so different from my peers as though we came from utterly different cultures. But then, I suppose we do. It was very surreal.