

Her boyfriend breaks up with her, and Fey soothes her grief by hanging out with her theater friends. The summer after 11th grade, Fey and her boyfriend work at Summer Showtime, a theater group that becomes a safe haven for gay teens. As she enters her teens, she begins to realize that women are judged for their bodies and that no body, no matter how conventionally beautiful, seems capable of satisfying the ideal.

She carries the scar to this day, and she believes she can tell a lot about people by the way they react to it. When she’s in kindergarten, her face is slashed by a stranger in an alley behind her house. Fey’s mother is forty years old when Fey is born, and Fey learns at a young at that her parents are older.
