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14 I’m 44 and I was the first person in my family to go to university—and the thing no one tells you about moving up a class is that you spend the rest of your life fluent in two worlds and fully comfortable in neither

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Christian Kelly @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 21:00 EDT

I’m 44 and I was the first person in my family to go to university—and the thing no one tells you about moving up a class is that you spend the rest of your life fluent in two worlds and fully comfortable in neither

After twenty years of dinner parties where someone complains about their cleaner while you remember eating beans on toast when money was tight, you realize the price of social mobility is becoming fluent in two worlds but never quite belonging to either.

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