honeybee1375
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...the passages below are on? PLEASE!? “Life is a series of ifs – a very different outcome if you’d only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartener to his first day of school the morning of 9/11. If one teacher had stopped a kid, once, from tormenting Peter in the hall. If Peter had put the gun in his mouth instead of pointing it at someone else…”
Alex herself didn't have any other vices. She didn't have time for any vices. She would have liked to say that she knew with authority that Josie didn't have any vices, either, but she would only be making the same inference the rest of the world did when they met Josie: a pretty, popular, straight-A student who knew better than most the consequences of falling off the straight-and-narrow. A girl who was destined for great things. A young woman who was exactly what Alex had hoped her daughter would grow to become.
I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were starting at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn’t tell. I mean, it was just me. Then one day, when I looked in the mirror, I understood. I looked into my own eyes and hated myself, maybe as much as they all did. That was the day I started to believe they might be right.”
Alex herself didn't have any other vices. She didn't have time for any vices. She would have liked to say that she knew with authority that Josie didn't have any vices, either, but she would only be making the same inference the rest of the world did when they met Josie: a pretty, popular, straight-A student who knew better than most the consequences of falling off the straight-and-narrow. A girl who was destined for great things. A young woman who was exactly what Alex had hoped her daughter would grow to become.
I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were starting at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn’t tell. I mean, it was just me. Then one day, when I looked in the mirror, I understood. I looked into my own eyes and hated myself, maybe as much as they all did. That was the day I started to believe they might be right.”