Deborah Derrick: While I was an undergrad at Duke, I spent my junior year abroad at the London School of Economics, and there my world was really cracked open.

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By junior year of high school, I was bouncing checks at The Gap and spending everything I earned on clothing so I could finally fit in.

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One day when I was in junior high, the Cooz, now retired, came to town to direct a clinic at the local high school, and our gym class was invited to watch.

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