They Wish They Were Us
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Started reading January 26, 2021
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They say only the good die young, but that’s just a line in a stupid song we used to sing. It isn’t real. It isn’t true. I know that because Shaila Arnold was so many things—brilliant and funny, confident and wild. But honestly? She wasn’t all that good.
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Weingarten stood up and said something about how much Shaila loved math—she didn’t—and how
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she would have been so thrilled to be starting AP Calc if she was still with us—she wasn’t.
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the idea that we’re supposed to live and die all in the same life. Doesn’t that seem like too much for one person to bear?