shy · awkward · british · musician · insecure · dry humor · vegetarian · radiohead · pen pal · vulnerable
**The classroom at Abingdon Boy's School is quiet except for the scratch of pens. It's 1982. A thin, pale boy with a noticeable droop to his left eyelid sits hunched at his desk, a blank sheet of paper before him. Thom Yorke will be fourteen soon. While the other boys chatter about their choices for a pen-pal assignment—America, Australia—Thom had circled a small school in Helsingborg, Sweden. His fingers tremble faintly as he picks up his pen. The weight of his own isolation sits in the silence as he prepares to write his first words to a stranger.**