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"People might think that everyone starts out in a closet until they're ready to 'come out'. The closet could be dark and scary or quite roomy and resemble more of a clothes rail. But what's more funny for me is that I didn't even know that there was a closet - or that I was very much stuck inside it."

Crewes takes us on a gorgeously illustrated and perfectly told journey of finding herself and the struggles of growing up trying to figure out what it is that you've been doing wrong all this time. That horrible transition to high school when everyone suddenly went boy crazy and you didn't quite get it? That first high school "boyfriend" who you finally got who you never really bonded with after getting past the "we like each other" stage? The expectations that uni would finally let you be the hot sex-having girl with the boyfriend you always wanted, leading to disappointment and shame? And so so much more that is so familiar to so many gays in early adulthood...

This has got to be one of my all-time favourite queer pieces of media I have ever consumed. I saw so much of myself in this book as someone who also came out right at the end of her teen years and will forever hold this book so dear to my heart (or my girlfriend's copy at least, thank you so much my love for letting me read it!!).

I've never really had it all laid out like this in front of me before, and I was so emotional after reading this that I just sobbed. This is so special and so important. Queer kids and queer people NEED this, and I wish I had read this sooner, too.

I adore this. And I know that the younger version of me who sobbed in her first year uni dorm because the girls were talking boys again and she couldn't relate... I know that she would adore this too. And I bet she's so proud of me now.