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"They're all misfits like me. Like all of us. We feel we never belong. We feel self-hatred. All of us are the same. I'm not alone."

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In a 2022 memoir, “It’s Not Where You Start… It’s Where You Finish,” Brown recalled feeling like a misfit in her small town.

Like Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Gabriel is a bit of a woebegone misfit in a long coat who needs assistance from the humans he is supposed to be assisting.

Was “Boots” going to be “Private Benjamin,” some graceless sitcom about a misfit soldier?

He skipped his college graduation from Suffolk University in Boston last year to move to San Francisco—the kind of city where “brilliant misfits have a place,” he said—and founded an AI finance startup.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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