STRANGE. My father always took a sort of mischievous pleasure in introducing me to his friends as his slightly "strange and unusual" daughter. A quote that comes from the cult movie BeetleJuice.(check to see if it’s one word or two—I think the character is one, the movie title is two words). As a child I was particularly interested in fear and horror. I watched almost every Hitchcock film I could get my hands on, quoted the Twilght Zone daily and as a teen eventually converted to witchcraft as a religion. On my parents’ 10th wedding anniversary party I joined the guests dressed as a vampire. My first profession of choice was a sincere aspiration to be a coroner. The prospect of spending my days understanding the mysteries of how a person would have died was oddly reassuring.
Synonyms: bizarre, singular, abnormal, anomalous. peculiar, odd, queer, unfamiliar and unusual.
Antonyms: familiar.
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