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“It’s hard for you to have Ma as a teacher, but did you ever look around? Everyone else really, really likes her classes”

“I don’t understand,” Libby repeated. “Why suspended? Just why, Deena? Why?”

Shan turns her head so sharply I get whiplash. “You want me to leave? I knew it”

Why couldn’t a different teacher have given over those announcements? Why, oh why, did it have to be my mother?

“Being poor,” he said to absolutely nobody, “is really, really annoying”

“I knew she was taking the meds. I knew, but I couldn’t tell anyone. She told me not to”