When I was in the 8th grade, I held a party and invited half the people in school and “ALL” the pretty girls to it. My next-door neighbor, Joel, was a shy introvert. I was about his only friend and was always trying to get him in with my other friends. Joel loved science and was off the charts smart, but he just could not bring himself to a point of fitting in with all the rest of his classmates. I invited him to my party anyway, all the while knowing that he would never accept. Sure enough, he declined . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/04/human-stench/