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...s. We went to many outings together, as would a father and son. I can clearly remember in school being all over the place. I never felt that I belonged more to a group of girls more then to a group of boys. The article mentioned how “individual girls and boys often stood in front of and behind one another in the single line, they also had strategies for maneuvering within formal constraints and separating into same-gender clusters.” (Thorne, p.71), I was always that little girl that was just in the middle of a bunch of boys when we had to stand in line. I have two older sisters and as I was growing up I would observe them, they got ready to go to a party or a friends house and always had on dresses and make-up. Having that influence around me made me feel that I still had to act like and look like a girl, so I did both! I played soccer on the weekends and during lunch at school, and I played nice with the girls in class, playing dress-up and in the kitchen. I grew up being very close with my sisters and my male and female cousins, and we spent a lot of time together. Having those close relationships with my family didn’t give me the opportunity to have parties or go out to the mall with the other girls. And I was completely content with that. One of the popularity factors for girls mentioned was Laissez-Faire “the degree to which parents closely supervised their children or were permissi...