Preface

Okay, so I have waited a long time to write this. Partially because I thought no one would ever want to read it, and partially because I didn’t know where to publish it.

Since this is an autobiography about an anonymous person, I suppose it’s good to tell you a little about myself so you can decide whether you want to read it or not.

My name is Melanie, I go by Mel. I have always gone by Mel. I don’t particularly like the name Melanie, I feel like it’s a boring name from the sixties or something. Mel isn’t much better, but it’s better than Melanie.

First and foremost, I am an introvert. A huge introvert. And a loner, I guess.

I was adopted into a family in the 1970’s as the youngest of four children. I have no idea why my family adopted me since they already had a bunch of kids, but I guess they felt compelled to help out a little kid. Who knows.

My family wasn’t bad to me, but, I had difficulty integrating and as a result we are not close. At all. I talk to them on social media from time to time and it is what it is.

All throughout elementary, middle, and high school, I was pretty much left to my own devices. I wasn’t a good or a bad student, I was right there in the average middle with everyone else.

I was a nerd, and I hung around with the other nerds. I had a group of friends, and we were reasonably well-behaved and didn’t get into a lot of trouble or anything. We were just a boring bunch.

You also probably want to know what I look like, and for the purposes of this story I will describe what I looked like in the 90’s because I certainly don’t look that way now.

In high school, everyone told me I looked like Mary Stewart Masterson when she starred in a movie called “Some Kind of Wonderful”.

I was short, skinny, shapeless with short blonde hair. My family wasn’t rich, my dad was a serviceman for an appliance company, so I was usually dressed in hand-me-downs from my older brothers or thrift store clothes.

But I was in the mid-to-low tier at high school so no one really gave me crap about it. Some of the girls in my friend group came from more affluent families, but no one dressed posh.

Anyway, I guess that’s all I have. Hope you enjoy the read.