The most popular girl in school asked my son to prom — I assumed it was a setup to humiliate him, but her true reason left me completely speechless.

I’d asked Nathan about it once, gently.

“Honey, do you ever sit with anyone at lunch?”

“Sometimes,” he’d said, not looking up from his book. “I don’t mind being alone, Mom. Really.”

I didn’t push. But I knew the difference between not minding and not having a choice.

The problem was that high school isn’t always kind to boys like Nathan.

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