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Chapter 8, Part 2: Catholic School Girl
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Chapter 8, Part 2: Catholic School Girl

I learned an important lesson about how institutions prioritize their public image back when I was in high school.
My senior year yearbook photo.
My senior. year yearbook photo at St. Teresa’s Academy. I had my reasons for choosing this quote.

It’s funny how formative experiences tend to repeat themselves. Being hauled into a Bloomberg HR meeting over my tweets about Martin Shkreli in 2018 didn’t feel that unfamiliar. A template for what the discussion was all about, what would likely be said and unsaid, and how management would try to “deal” with me was already imprinted in my mind — from way back when I was a freshman at St. Teresa’s Academy, an all-girls Catholic prep school in Kansas City, Missouri.

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