* My body continued to behave anomalously. I was very thin and much shorter than my peers until a growth spurt in my mid-to-late teens. My voice did not drop until my sixteenth year, when it suddenly dropped a lot. I never did acquire body hair, and developed minimal facial and pubic hair only in my 20s. Perhaps it was a case of mind over matter. Whatever it was, I count my blessings. The deep, resonant voice, though…that hurt.