 In fact, I've grown rather proud of it. I just don't fit in the modern 22nd century world. There was no place in all of New York City from Norfolk to Bangor where I felt at home. And it was the same in every other great city complex on Earth. In school, I flunked such elementary subjects as group acculturation, sibling fit values, recognition, and folkways judgment. There was only one thing to do. As practically every misfit in the past century had done, I decided to migrate to deep space and find a place where I could call my soul my own.