In Her Shadow
My twin sister, wanting to be with her thug boyfriend, secretly planned to apply for a junior college.
When I could not talk her out of it, I told our parents and managed to stop her.
However, just a month into the new semester, her thug boyfriend cheated on her.
She left a suicide note, blaming it all on the long distance between them. She wrote that if she had gone to that junior college, her boyfriend would never have cheated.
Grief‑stricken, my parents turned all their rage on me.
"You wretched girl, this is all your fault for meddling! What business was it of yours which school your sister went to? Even if she didn't go to college, we could still support her. We didn't need your bi