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I grew up in what kids around here call “the bubble:” they typical American suburb, with the protective PTA moms and the fashionable “trendsetters of America.” For all I knew, the worst thing that could ever happen to me was that my hair dryer wouldn’t turn on in the morning. This naïve outlook on my life changed during the summer between freshman and sophomore years of high school. Not al