Seventeen Again: The Day Everything Changed

bedroom. It was college application day, and everything felt eerily familiar, especially my lifelong

they were ditching the Ivy League. Their new plan? State University, staying local, all to "support"

cores, reveling in *her* success, while publicly dismissing my shock and mocking my sudden declaration of choosing UC Berkeley. At the graduation party, they treated Brittany like royalty, the

r someone they barely knew? Why did their chivalry translate into such a profound

ntly absorbed their choices, I clutched my Berkeley acceptance, booked a one-way