Suffering for Her Own Blessings
Even now, I haven't fully bounced back.
The second time came at 18. After three years of ditching class, chain-smoking with delinquents, and hopping between reckless flings, Shirley didn't hesitate to swap her SAT scores for mine the second they were out.
She landed first in the city and got into a top-tier university. I couldn't even scrape into community college, so I ended up in a factory job.
Now, only one swap remained.
Shirley's eyes brightened like she'd just seen a lifeline. She scanned my outfit with an eager, almost greedy look before asking, as if it were nothing, "Who are those people inside?"
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