My name is Lucy, and if there’s one thing I’ve always been certain about, it’s this: I was meant to be a teacher.
Even as a kid, I’d line up my dolls and pretend to teach them how to read. It wasn’t a phase. It was a dream that stuck.
Forty years later, I was still walking into the same school building every morning.
It was a dream that stuck.
I’d built a life there. Awards on the walls. “Best Teacher” medals. Positive letters from parents. Articles in the local papers. Grateful smiles from students and their parents.
That school wasn’t just where I worked.
It was where I belonged.
This year, a new student, Andrea, transferred into my class.
You could tell right away she came from money. Not just from her clothes, but by the way she carried herself, as if rules were optional.
It was where I belonged.
I welcomed her the same way I did every other student.
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