“He’s just so bright”, they say and you say, ‘thanks, I guess’ or ‘cheers’ and you pretend to make no big deal of it. It means nothing (it means everything!) See, the light went out, for you, a long time ago – it stopped shining, after failure upon failure, and too long taken to do this, or not enough time left to try that.
But the kid is bright. And he …
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