The long and short of being tall

153cm. That was how tall I was - or short, if you like - when I was 13 and going to middle school.

Out of the 27 girls in my class, I stood third from the front in the queue, with the tallest girl far away at the back and the shortest at the front.

During the first semester, most girls seemed to have been mushrooming by the day, while all I succeeded in doing was making friends with the second-shortest girl in my class - my forehead leveled her scalp when she stood in front of me in the line. Other than that, I remained pretty much unchanged.