All the Love That Never Landed
She had not even let me tell her what I scored.
Ms. Gale went on, saying, "Darcy had a very hard year. During the second semester of senior year, she was constantly hunched over her desk doing practice tests, her face so pale it was alarming. She also didn't have enough money for living expenses and had to take on part-time work.
"She got heatstroke more than once from handing out flyers, and one time, she came in with a bruise on her forehead. I asked her why she didn't tell her family. She said there was no point."