Never assume
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Last published Fri, Jan 30, 2015
I assume. You assume. Everyone assumes.
Because, when a girl arrives at your boarding school in a hideous beat up Ford, she must be poor. If she's not clothed from head to toe in designer, her parents must be having financial problems. If she can actually answer the teacher's question without hesitation, she MUST be a scholarship student. To assume, is natural. It's a human flaw.
A flaw, Arianna DiMartino especially hates. Even if, sometimes, she makes the same mistake. However, here at her new school Darlington Academy, she uses people's stereo-typical view as an advantage. So when they tag her as something she's most definitely not, she plays along.
But how long can she keep up the facade? How long can she keep lying? Especially, when her acting skills are laughable at best?
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