I had an idea that Lena had a real life outside of our friendship, one in which she was a native in ways I could never understand. What did Lena and her native friends joke about? Where did they go on a Friday night? What did they consider cool or weird? This last one was always on my mind. Just like the fear of my family thinking me a stranger, I feared that strangers would find me weird.

— Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas (Page 40 - 41)