They Thought I Failed—Until I Turned Down Harvard novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Withdrawn
"The essay is Delaney's," the woman in the gray blazer said.
She said it to the principal, but she said it into the microphone the principal had pushed toward her, so that every row heard.
"I took notes in December, and I dated them. I will send them to the admissions dean tonight, with the essay Harvard received in January."
"I will also say that I have read a great many essays, and I have never been lied to so well."
Camille stood at the lectern with the page hanging from her hand.
Nobody clapped.
The principal asked her, very quietly, to step down.
She came down the stage steps alone, in the white dress, and the first two rows leaned away from her as she passed.
Holden's mother had him by the elbow before the crowd could close.
She walked him up the center aisle without a word, and he looked back once, at me, with his mouth open.
My mother was crying properly now, with her whole face.
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