The PostScript: Not popular

I was not popular in high school.

Everyone says this. I now realize that no one — not even the most popular person in high school — self-identifies as popular.

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of Facebook friend requests from people I scarcely knew in high school. I have a 40th class reunion coming up next year and I’ve been getting friend requests from people who, I am quite sure, would not have recognized me walking down the hall in high school. In their defense, I was part of a very large class and I think the divisions and subdivisions were almost necessary to find any sense o...