Though I have always found her beautiful, human teenage popularity standards were unyielding, especially for athletes. Cathy couldn’t rise to their expectations. Cathy was the kind of blue-eyed white girl reminding me of the Blue Eyes White Dragon YuGiOh card I coveted when I was younger. And like blue eyes and whiteness, eventually I learned the Blue Eyes White Dragon was simply a construct too. A piece of flimsy card stock, its value ascribed by a mysterious higher power.
