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my face perfectly blank and unreadable. It was Dr. Stephen Reynolds, my form

urmured gently, making sure her sweet voice carried just enough for everyone in the room to hear. Then, she turned to face me with a look of extreme, condescending disappointment, as if she were a queen lecturing a peasant. "Kate, how could you

from his shock regarding the black card. A malicious, ugly sneer spre

wealthy shoppers. "I heard she constantly lies about her education to make herself look better to high society. She walks around pretending to be some hidden intellec

king at me with undisguised, snobby disdain. Women in designer dresses whispered behind their hands, throwing judgmental

e apart. "Shut your dirty mouth, Blake! You have absolutely no idea who you are talking

ss, gold-digging housewife who only knows how to swipe her husband's credit cards and stay at home? Give me a break! If she went to MIT, then I am the pr

just stupid and uneducated. In our three years of marriage, he had never once bothered to ask about my degree or my past. He had simply assumed Carol's nasty rumors about my community college background were com

per into my back. "Alright, Blake, please stop teasing her. It is totally normal for women like Kate to lie about their background to

Stephen Reynolds is right here with me today. As a highly respected tenured professor at MIT and an absolute authority in higher educ

me get publicly humiliated and exposed by a real academic. Emerson pressed his li

d a bit since I last saw him in Cambridge four year

mance. He squinted, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose, as if he couldn't believe his own eyes. The brilliant student who had disappeared without a trace was standing righ

se physical reaction, "you probably have never heard of her, but this wom

kward in her high heels, letting out a small gasp of surprise. Walking straight up to me, he ignored everyone

oing loudly in the suddenly dead-quiet roo

confusion. Emerson's eyes widened, his brow furrowing as he tried to process what was ha

y unfazed by the stunned audience watching