My Expulsion from the Herd

We are a tribal species, and my banishment was so psychologically painful I still struggle to talk about it 20 years later.

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It’s October 2000. I’m 17 years old, and I’m a first-year undergraduate at Oxford University. I’m there to read English, but what I really want to be is King of the World. I want to make a name for myself, and I’m…