I Am Not Cut Out For This

"This should be a funny story because it is such an absurd one, but it returns me to that moment in my life when I was shackled by so much insecurity and felt so tragically lost."

To populate our Substack page, we’re re-running some old essays on Fridays. This one is about my terrible freshman year of college, when I decided it was much easier to go to rehab than to tell my parents I was rudderless and depressed and hated school.

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