I came here like a year before junior high—junior high is really not a great time. I don’t actually really cover it in the book but that was like my low point. Being there and having a high-pitched voice—my voice hadn’t broke—I sounded like that kid from that Narnia movie, you know? So I do think that I made an attempt somehow to Americanize myself. I’ve often thought that if I had come here at a later age I wouldn’t have. My brother still sounds very English and I’m jealous of him because it instantly makes people think that he’s smarter and more charming. It’s in his little toolbox. It’s like, “Oh well! You’re English! You must know what you’re talking about!”
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