When Glenn was in grade 7, he got in trouble at school.

So he had to write an apology letter to the vice principal.

Dear Mr. Rankin, I'm so sorry about what happened at recess today.

It was an accident.

I'm sorry Sean got hurt and that he had to go to the dentist.

I know we should use our words and not get met.

But what happened is I was doing a karate move with my hand and Sean put his face where

my hand was going and my hand hit his face.

I didn't try to hurt his face on purpose, but he shouldn't have put his face there.

That's Glenn, reading an apology letter to his vice principal. I'm Dan Meisner, and this,

this is a very special episode of grown-ups read things they wrote as kids, a show where we go back in time

to remember the good, the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.

It's a very special episode because it's the final podcast episode of season six, and it is the 13th anniversary of the show.

That's right. Long before there was a podcast, Grown Up's Read Things They they wrote as kids was a live event, and we've been doing it for 13 years. So to celebrate all of this, we decided to pick some of our all-time favorite readings to play for you. Not all of them, of course. At this point, we have recorded thousands of readings, and we've released more than 130 podcast episodes. So these are

just a few of the readings that really stuck with us over the years. This stuff is weird,

it is wonderful, and it can help us understand who we are today. So think about who you were,

when you were a kid, and stick around.

So much of what we hear on stage is about what social scientists call liminality,

these moments of transition in life, where things are especially confusing because we're changing. We're not who we used to be, but we're not yet

who we're going to become. That is liminality, the awkwardness of being in between.

Our next reader, Deborah, shared a few selections from the diary she kept in 1971,

written over the course of about two weeks, and they're all about a very particular

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