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027: Decisions

Author: Monday Luisa
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~Elena’s POV~

Sofia reads over my shoulder. “That is a lot of decisions for someone whose father is dying.”

“I can’t think about appeals right now…”

“Then don’t think, just decide.” She grabs her laptop. “Marina needs an answer. What is it going to be, fight for your degree or let it go?”

“If I fight and lose, I will have wasted time and money for nothing.”

“And if you don’t fight, you will always wonder if you could have won.”

I think about three years of graduate work. My research. My thesis that is ninety percent complete. Everything I sacrificed to get this far.

“File the appeal,” I tell Sofia. “Even if it’s hopeless.”

She emails Marina immediately.

My phone rings. Unknown number. I almost ignore it, then answer. “Hello?”

“Miss Vega? This is Professor Reyes from the ethics committee.” His voice is careful. “I’m calling off the record. Against protocol, frankly. But I felt you should know, the committee met this evening. We have reviewed all the evidence. David Chen’s confession. C
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  • The Professor’s Canvas    032: Betrayed

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  • The Professor’s Canvas    030: The Return

    *To the University of Barcelona Ethics Committee:**My name was Antonio Vega. By the time you read this, I’ll be dead but before I go, I need to tell you something about my daughter Elena.**Forty years ago, I was you. I was the professor. My wife was the student. We fell in love despite every rule saying we shouldn’t. We hid it for years. When it came out, I lost my career and she lost her reputation. We built a new life from nothing.**I tell you this not to excuse my daughter’s choices. She violated your policies, she made mistakes. But so did I and those mistakes led to forty years of marriage, a successful business and a brilliant daughter.**Elena is guilty of loving someone she shouldn’t have loved. Of making complicated choices in impossible situations, of being human.**If you expel her, you are not punishing misconduct. You are punishing love and love is messy and inconvenient and often inappropriate. But it is also the only thing that makes any of this worth it.**So here i

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