Among the more than 300 students, she must have been one of the brightest, and also one of the few who dared to ask questions. Even after the very first class — in the first university week of her life — Susie was there, with questions, questions, questions.
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Even when I made an accidental (but still pretty okay) joke and her two friends were laughing hard, she barely understood why we were having even the slightest fun — she seemed entangled with an almost unbearable seriousness which felt troubling for a girl of her age.
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