Must I Go by Yiyun Li

Author:Yiyun Li [Li, Yiyun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

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WHEN I WAS IN kindergarten, there was a teacher my best friend Amy and I both loved with a passion. Her name was Miss Corey. Was she a good teacher? I don’t remember having learned much from her. What we loved most was her red hair, kept short, done with perfect finger waves.

Miss Corey had a habit of drawing little flowers and animals in our workbooks. She must have done it to make our work look better, even when we had the worst handwriting. But she never did it consistently. And you never knew whose workbook would be chosen on a given day. In the end, Amy and I both believed Miss Corey favored the other. I don’t think Miss Corey even knew the damage she caused. The same with Roland, but I trust that the two French girls were smarter than Amy and me. He was right. They would remain friends, Roland or no Roland.

Here’s a lesson: Don’t become a casualty of other people’s casual behavior. If someone puts his heart into hurting you or destroying you, you have to at least respect him. But more often people hurt others because they’re thoughtless. They elbow and push you because it never occurs to them you can possibly exist in that space. Iola, you must remember this.

Thoughtlessness is the eighth deadly sin.

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