I drew him the way he looks, and I drew his office the way it still looks to this day. Dragoni” (not too far off from his real name). I got the sense she had been hanging on to her old baggage as well, and I hope that now the air is clear.Īnother person who tracked me down is my old orthodontist, “Dr. Even though I’ve ‘gotten over’ most of the events in my past, it was a really amazing moment of closure. Recently I have been in touch with some of the people who mistreated me all those years ago, and in one case, I received an apology. My readers always want to know if I’ve been contacted by any former “frienemies.” For a while, if these people realized they were the ones cast as mean girls in the story, they didn’t say anything. They are still around, and in some cases, we are even still internet friends! It makes for a nice reading experience, seeing my character grow in confidence enough to finally stand up for herself…but the people in the story are still real. In the end, their teasing got bad enough that I had to ditch them altogether, and find new friends to hang out with. (By which I mean, the physical appearance of one friend merged with the personality of another.) It was a difficult time in my life: my new dental deformities made me terribly shy and self-conscious, and my so-called friends loved to pick on me. And of course, these are all based on real people! I changed a few of their names, and in the case of a couple of my friends, changed or combined some of their appearances.

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