In college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she tried her hand at playing the ideal college student ? ?makeup, hair, cute clothes? and ?dating horrible, gross dudes.? She even tried to pledge a sorority, but a poorly timed dermatologic event pre-empted this. One day she was taking a walk on the shore of Lake Mendota in Madison with some of the friends she?d made, still very much preoccupied with cuteness, when she saw a bunch of people ? ?like hippies, feminists, demonstrators, political kids, people who fought? ? wading in the water, just having a good and un-self-conscious time. These, she realized, these were her people.
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