Gavin Newsom

You should have skipped that.

You used the word dork.

It was also used by my sister who said I looked like one when I started showing up.

Actually, she said literally she gave me money to buy jeans because she was so embarrassed I was walking around in suits in high school.

Look, I think it was, you know, somebody once said, Oscar Wilde, I think he said in Boy's Life, he said, you know, the first phase of life, we all, you know, have a pose.

And I guess I was posing.

And I didn't know who I was.

I was going through a process of discovery.

I mean, quite literally, there's a funny chapter in there about discovering dippity-doo.

Whatever that just disgusting translucent substance was.

Yeah, and it was sort of a metamorphosis.

You're still using the look.

I remember from sophomore to junior year.

And then I started to put on a mask and quite literally put on a suit.

And I was sort of trying to emulate other people just a little bit.

just testing, you know, as kids do, trying to discover who I am.

But, you know, that process continues to this day.

I'm not trying to force feed anything.

I'm just sharing my story, my life, story of my mom's life, story of her struggles, story of my struggles as it relates to reading and learning disabilities and

You know, I painted a picture that I painted in detail in the book of someone that always struggled academically, that was bouncing around different schools, that does not read a speech today because I couldn't read a speech today.