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0:00So I changed in appearance quite drastically from 12 to 14 years old,
0:04and not necessarily in a good way.
0:07I decided to do a little experiment
0:08to see what it would take to become a popular girl.
0:11I ended up dying my hair bleach blonde.
0:13I plucked my brows. I mean,
0:15can you believe that
0:15thick brows were generally considered uncool back in 2,007?
0:19I guess you could say they were frowned upon.
0:23I started wearing makeup and began to diet,
0:26which eventually spiraled into a long term eating disorder
0:29that controlled most of my everyday life until I was 22.
0:32Do not recommend this. Most unfortunate of all,
0:35this behaviour was reinforced by the fact that I did,
0:38in fact start drawing attention.
0:40Other kids started noticing me.
0:42Boys took an interest in me.
0:44So I guess my little sick science project proved successful.
0:47To the dismay of humanity as a whole.
0:49Let's all face palm together now.
0:51In my first comprehensive or high school,
0:54we had mandatory after school clubs on Wednesday.
0:57Yeah, that's right,
0:58you are forced to attend. To be Frank,
1:00I found it loathsome. If I had actual friends to laugh and joke with,
1:04it might have been a different story.
1:06But as you can imagine, sports clubs aren't so appealing
1:09when you're consistently the last one to be picked.
1:11And not because I was bad at sport, though.
1:14In my third year, year nine for the Brits.
1:16Where you at, fam?
1:17They introduced A new woodworking club.
1:20Now, this.
1:21This was my jam. Or this is my sap,
1:24should I say? More prominently?
1:26This would be where I met,
1:27technically, my first boyfriend.
1:30My first ever romantic experience,
1:32which, in a few months,
1:33I'd learn a lasting life lesson from.
1:36Cody was tall, slim,
1:37was subtly nerdy, but also exuded an air of confidence.
1:41And more than anything, he had cute hair.
1:43I was always a sucker for interesting hairstyles.
1:45Despite him being in my year,
1:47I'd never actually really seen him before.
1:50This wasn't entirely uncommon with the way our year groups were split.
1:53But as we started talking,
1:55we immediately hit it off.
1:56Our task at the woodworking club
1:58was to build birdhouses for the school grounds.
2:00And, of course,
2:01me, being me,
2:02went above and beyond
2:03in creating some elaborate blueprints for this bird mansion.
2:07Essentially, Cody liked my idea,
2:09so he was working with me.
2:10Inevitably, we were forced to water down our original design.
2:13But we laughed and joked every step of the way,
2:15and I forgot all of my worries in the world.
2:18I felt like I had a real friend.
2:21I wanted to be around him more.
2:22I couldn't wait to see him.
2:24We started organizing to hang.
