School life is different from what most movies show. While some get to cruise through it in their main character era, others have to suffer through deep loneliness where they struggle to find community and support. For Sawyer Tinsley, going to school was overwhelming and lonely. Her first year of middle school was not going well since most of her old friends had shifted to a different school district in Jupiter, Florida. Moreover, due to COVID-19, it was difficult to make new friends with faces behind masks. "You would have to be six feet away, you couldn't really speak, you had masks on, you couldn't really see people. So, it started there when I was just like ... this is hard, like, this is hard to do school in these conditions," she said to WBPF News. "It was the best thing for helping me transition during COVID time when it was really hard."
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