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Ваша оценкаMischa Abramavicius is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application in human form. So when she's rejected not only by the Ivies, but her loathsome safety school, she is shocked and devastated. All the sacrifices her mother made to send her to prep school, the late nights cramming for tests, the blatantly résumé-padding extracurriculars (read: Students for Sober Driving) ... all that for nothing.
As Mischa grapples with the prospect of an increasingly uncertain fu...
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RamingoWS22 октября 2018 г."I`m trying to make sense of the person I`ve been for the past eighteen years, and it`s not working. Google said something about how striving leads to expectations and expectations lead to suffering. Maybe that`s my problem? That was your problem, right?"
He was silent for a minute. "My problem was other people`s expectations. Not mine."037- RamingoWS22 октября 2018 г.Читать далее
"Would you stop saying 'we'? Did it ever occur to you that maybe I was more than just an extension of you?"
"Of course you are," she said. "I never said—"
"You did say it," I said. "You`ve been living it. For the last eighteen years."
"Would you prefer that I didn`t care what happened to you?"
"Sometimes I think it would be better if you didn`t."
"Right, because it would be so wonderful to have a mother who didn`t care if you ended up dead in a ditch."
I pointed a finger at her. "And that`s the problem! Right there! There`s a billion possibilities between Ivy League and dead in a ditch. But you don`t see that, do you? It`s either one or the other. I`m ether the golden child or I`m worthless."035 - RamingoWS22 октября 2018 г.Читать далее
Think about it that way. At any point in your life, you are two people. There`s the Mischa you think you are, and then there`s the Mischa everyone else sees. The second one is the one who gets you into college, or not. That `s the one who applies for jobs, and mortgages, and gets written about in the paper. Call her the Mischa-bot, if you will. Your brand. Your avatar. You`ve worked for the last twelve years programming her with all the bits you want her to have. The right classes. The right extracurriculars. All that garbage you do as a means to an end.
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