Even in the burgeoning bohemianism of 1960s Britain, this bookworm was punched by less intellectually driven secondary school classmates, while he did not fully appreciate the factionalism of the hard-left until university Freshers Fairr.
A secondary-school classmate, who had been presumed gay and teased about it, committed suicide in his mid-20s.
I was in secondary school when my classmate relayed, with all the righteous disgust distinctive to teenage girls, how she'd found her brother's cache of images: of Britney's professionally grinning face pasted onto professionally naked women.
He heard that the former headmistress of the girls' secondary school had been a classmate of the wife of the then president.
Okoli Okafor had been his classmate in secondary school and at university, a quiet boy who had been teased for having a surname for a first name, who later joined a vicious cult at university, and then left Nigeria during one of the long strikes.
I introduced myself on the first day of secondary school by announcing to my classmates that I had two great passions: Elizabeth I and the Tory party.
Since secondary school, he has enjoyed helping classmates with their science and math assignments.
During this time he met his future wife, Lalao Rakotonirainy, a classmate at the secondary school.
Now he has moved to secondary school – along with a group of primary school classmates who became close friends.
But the entrepreneurs were 11 and 12 years old and the bankers approving the loan were their classmates at Mayfield secondary school, acting on behalf of the finance and enterprise charity MyBnk.
I can't tell you how many times in secondary school I apologised to teachers and classmates for crimes I didn't commit, on behalf of other Albanians who apparently had stolen or killed.
