Because I hold multiple affilations: male, left-handed, homosexual, celibate, incest and ( gen.mut. survivor!👍🏾), activist semi-retiredSPED educator, opera aficionado, and born with brown skin, "the pain" is centered in shunning, isolation, forced into an 'invisibility cloak", and daily learning to live(!🎉💥🌈🎆) alone. But all that would make the sentence too long.🙃😒😎. Read the book written by a same sex married gay Roman Catholic man; Watched Wicked Part 1...and looking forward to Part 2. Thanks for another Blockbuster Reflection Essay!