I watched her kill it at the top percent of our class and give an inspiring, heartfelt speech during our graduation. She’d struggled to start at first. Her eyes were darting around, her hands fisting the edge of her gown while she shifted from foot to foot. But then, out of nowhere, those brown eyes landed on me, and she started speaking as if it was just her and I in the whole damn stadium. It rekindled my hope that maybe we could try to be something regardless of our obvious differences. But when I went to find her after the ceremony, I overheard her with her sister and learned it wasn’t
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