GS-The turkey was still warm when he said it. I had not returned home…

barely large enough for a twin bed and a folding desk. The radiator hissed through the night. The scholarship covered my classes, but I washed dishes before sunrise and cleaned laboratory spaces after evening lectures to pay rent.

I was tired almost all the time.

I was also alive in a way I had never been before.

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