All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
““Margaret shows exceptional promise,” she wrote, in a perfect cursive hand. “She can be a bit of a know-it-all, but that is, of course, the hallmark of a bright mind and a strong leader. Have you considered having her skip a grade?” Margaret rereads this line in the dim light of the upstairs attic. The authoritative red ink has faded to an anemic pink, the tissue-thin paper nearly disintegrates in her hands. She marvels that even at eight years old, her personality had already so clearly formed...—know-it-all!—which raises the question of whether she had actually sprung from Janice’s womb already convinced that she had nothing left to learn. And yet, how wrong her teacher had been. Strong leader! she snorts. She’d had them all fooled, even before she’d outgrown her Barbies.
She tosses the report card at her feet, where it comes to rest on top of a growing pile of yellowing papers: report cards from thirteen years of grammar, grade, and high school; marked-up essays, each emblazoned with a capital A (often, an A+) on the title page; her high school transcript, with its implausible 4.3 GPA; her high school graduation cap, its flattened rayon top enthusiastically inked with the name of her upcoming alma mater, CORNELL; her twin senior theses, one for each college major, two forty-page tomes that she had composed during marathon sessions in the campus library; her admittance letter to grad school and a pixilated photo of her in the local paper for having made Phi Beta Kappa.MoreLess
She tosses the report card at her feet, where it comes to rest on top of a growing pile of yellowing papers: report cards from thirteen years of grammar, grade, and high school; marked-up essays, each emblazoned with a capital A (often, an A+) on the title page; her high school transcript, with its implausible 4.3 GPA; her high school graduation cap, its flattened rayon top enthusiastically inked with the name of her upcoming alma mater, CORNELL; her twin senior theses, one for each college major, two forty-page tomes that she had composed during marathon sessions in the campus library; her admittance letter to grad school and a pixilated photo of her in the local paper for having made Phi Beta Kappa.MoreLess
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