All Your Life

Sarah Hamilton is living the dream.

She earns perfect grades, has the right set of friends and wears the right clothes.

She's a golden child, and the long-awaited answer to her parents' prayers.

I walk through that life-Sarah's life-every day, but it's like I'm watching from some perch on a tree outside the window. I'm always searching for something: some feeling, some connection, some person. I don't know who or what it is. All I know is that I don't belong.

I've known it all my life.

So when I...