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Letter of Extenuating Circumstances

Family Secrets

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The Importance of Faith in My Mother

"I grew up with this narrative for my mom, of her saying all the time, I almost got into Stanford," she says. "It didn't really matter to me as a kid if it was rational or not." She adds: "Even though there were all these ways in which she was failing me, there was just one really important way in which she had my back"

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