We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
I hadn__ gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I__ been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I__ figured out early in my college career that there were people like Jenny and Brandon and Lydia and Josh__ruly brilliant, truly luminous, whose names would appear in history books that my children and grandchildren would read, and there were people like George and Odile__ho through beauty and charm and personality would make the cult of celebrity their own. And then there were people like me. People who, through the arbitrary wisdom of the admissions office, might share space with the big shots for four years, might be their friends, their confidantes, their associates, their lovers__ut would live a life well below the global radar. I knew it, and over the years, I__ come to accept it.And I understood that it didn__ make them any better than me.
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I hadn__ gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I__ been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I__ figured out early in my college career that there were people like Jenny and Brandon and Lydia and Josh__ruly brilliant, truly luminous, whose names would appear in history books that my children and grandchildren would read, and there were people like George and Odile__ho through beauty and charm and personality would make the cult of celebrity their own. And then there were people like me. People who, through the arbitrary wisdom of the admissions office, might share space with the big shots for four years, might be their friends, their confidantes, their associates, their lovers__ut would live a life well below the global radar. I knew it, and over the years, I__ come to accept it.And I understood that it didn__ make them any better than me.
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