And my son sat in a car park for forty-one minutes with a sentence he had been sharpening for five weeks, about a room full of people who had deliberately left him out, and every part of that was wrong, and he walked in and said it into a microphone.

Part Thirty-Two: Dalia Espinoza

There was one person in that ballroom who did not need the video explained to her.

Dalia Espinoza was in Julian’s year from 2010 until the February of 2013, when her family moved her to a school forty minutes away in the middle of tenth grade, which is a thing that families do not do for convenience.

She was not a friend of his.