THE NARRATIVE ARC

Gender Skirmishes: I Was a Third Grade Fashion Rebel

Playground assaults and the mutual respect that followed

Anne Kruse, M.S.
The Narrative Arc
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4 min readApr 11, 2024

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four kids standing together in colorful rubber boots
Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash

Emancipation was not a word I knew yet. But my adult self looks back with certainty that this was the indescribable sensation. The day went down in my little history as the day I liberated myself from the restraints of a school…

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Anne Kruse, M.S.
The Narrative Arc

Writer, Career Psychology, Conveyor of humor, insightful absurdities, and some stuff we really should talk about. annekrusethewriter.com.