Their Fall, My Rise

top grades, intense training, a cl

, a reward for years o

est friend, and his conniving girlfriend, Tiffany, decide

itness test and derailed my SATs, watching

ructed world colla

ead-end jobs, a life of grinding poverty, a

ion: cold fury from Tiffany, an almost apologetic glance from Ma

by the crushing wei

sted engineer such a complete a

ny pain, leaving me with a desperate,

oblivion, I w

the drone of a lawnmower, the

before my fut

h the searing clarit

en I s

ssessing eyes t

a do-over;