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“I don’t [know]. But sometimes you have to pretend… The certainty comes later.”

“Something about raising kids, something about gardening. Imagine pulling up a plant by its shoots to try and force it to grow.”

“And yet for all the kids who had grown up in the Bay Area, in the shadow of Stanford’s influence, this was the kind of school that felt equal parts too far away and too close to home.”

“Change came faster now that Alex was gone, now that she could no longer watch so carefully.”

“Will, who had always loved art, who saw beauty and wanted it, to make or to consume or to just be around.”