Yet through junior high and high school, I was floundering. As important as my conversion was, it didn’t transform my day-to-day life. I had always had trouble relating to my peers, and that didn’t change. My relationships with my teachers were often tense. I fell in June, two days after the end of my junior year. My high school years had been disquieting. It was always clear I could succeed academically, if I would apply myself. But each day I would carry books home from school and