My school 30-year reunion is coming up this weekend.

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As reunions do for many, it has sparked mixed emotions.

Nostalgia for an increasingly distant childhood. Curiosity to see what my peers have been up to. And insecurity in thinking about how my life might, or might not, match up to theirs.

But, unlike most, it has raised another, particularly-unwelcome phenomenon: past trauma.

Because, as a gay kid who attended a religious boarding school in Brisbane in the early 1990s, high school was, to be frank, a pretty awful experience, with layer up

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