They Chose a Different Path for My Twin — I Built My Own and Surprised Everyone at Graduation

has learned that yes has to be offered deliberately and not reflexively, because reflexive yes has gotten women like me into unpayable debts of obligation before. But this was a different kind of offer. I recognized it. I said yes.

She submitted my paper to the Wren Prize for undergraduate scholarship in the humanities. She wrote me a letter of recommendation continue reading …