Fic: Sara and the Book, Part I
Nov. 9th, 2009 08:18 pmSara was 14 when she came to Cambridge University. This was very young and a very very great achievement, although it was only a footnote to all the things she would do later. Unfortunately she was a shy studious child ill adapted to making friends with students five years older than her.
So much of her identity was bound up in being a prodigy that she couldn't relax with students who wanted to let their hair down. She still needed to experiment socially, and make and lose friendships, and push boundaries, but everyone she knew had already gone through that, so she had lots of friends, but not really any peers. She would go to lectures, and go to supervisions, and play intellectual board games and card games, and even stand up to big people in intellectual bragging contests. But she had no true friends, and sometimes before she went to sleep she would lie awake wondering why she couldn't cry.
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So much of her identity was bound up in being a prodigy that she couldn't relax with students who wanted to let their hair down. She still needed to experiment socially, and make and lose friendships, and push boundaries, but everyone she knew had already gone through that, so she had lots of friends, but not really any peers. She would go to lectures, and go to supervisions, and play intellectual board games and card games, and even stand up to big people in intellectual bragging contests. But she had no true friends, and sometimes before she went to sleep she would lie awake wondering why she couldn't cry.
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