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=//What I Was// by Meg Rosoff: a teaching resource= = While //What I was// is, at times, ambiguous and even perhaps a bit controversial it lends itself well to the classroom setting. The story is of an elderly man reminiscing back to his days as a troubled youth. The novel raises the question of sexual identity and it's correspondence to love and true friendship. H finds himself questioning what he is when he happens upon a mysterious youth living alone in a shack by the sea. This sometimes obsessive crush leads H into some of the most memorable, for good or for bad, moments of his life. H is a troubled youth struggling to find his niche in society. Rosoff creates a pastoral England setting taking place in the 1960's giving the reader insight into a different time with a different set of beliefs.=