My Sister Took My Passport Before My Scholarship Interview and My Parents Said It Wasn’t Meant for Me Until I Proved Them Wrong

countries and were the kind of people I had been looking for without knowing quite what I was looking for, people whose ambition was not competitive in any zero-sum way but was directed outward, toward problems in the world rather than toward positioning within a room.

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