Dirt Bags
An excerpt from the memoir ‘High School’ by Tegan and Sara
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7 min readSep 24, 2019
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I was in sixth grade when the first suggestion of change occurred to my body. I stood in a hallway mirror that hung between the three bedrooms in our house, staring at my bare chest. I was afraid someone would catch me inspecting myself, but as with any gruesome discovery, I couldn’t stop looking. The permanence of the change upon me altered how I…