Samantha Panepinto is an educator, writer, and sweet potato fangirl in NYC. She’s pretty sure she has adamantium bones like Wolverine. Hang with her via her fledgling Twitter or her more robust yet nonsense-filled Instagram.
Middle school is weird. It was awkward as hell when I was a hormonal, monstrous, uncertain twelve-year-old, and only slightly less so when I went back to teach English. So…
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