New perspective from a single story

 On my first day of freshman year, someone said something purposefully cringey, when calling role, while being a shorter guy, and bright clothing I assumed he was odd, and weird, and avoided conversations. later that year I gave talking to him a shot and found out he was really funny. I have remained friends with him to this day. I would've really regretted taking his single story, as his full person.

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