Feeling fearful about your high school reunion? You're not alone

Kelly Out decided to skip multiple reunions for her Victoria-area high school class because she’s still embarrassed by the person she was when she was a student.

“I look back at my old self and I think I wouldn’t want to spend a couple of hours with you,” she said.

Out, 57, said once she left high school in 1984, she realized she’d been putting on a persona that wasn’t kind nor true to herself. 

“People having expectations that that former person is going to show up and that’s just not me — I guess that’s what’s making me avoid it,” she said of high-school reunions, which commonly take place at this time of year.

The events, which

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