al Scholarship was about to begin. I st

ure of

every comma that would create a perfect essay. An

t would lead

val, Ethan, submitted an identical one online, jus

ign on TikTok. They painted me as a fraud, a pl

The school expelled me.

eak heart give out. She died in the hosp

savings trying to clear my name. He died when his fishing boat capsiz

rom Yale. I saw the pictures online, him smiling

room, at the same desk. The clock

ed up

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to the same trap. I

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