Chapter 13

As I began to think a bit more deeply
about my own identity, I fell hard for a
classmate of mine named Usha. As luck
would have it, we were assigned as
partners for our first major writing
assignment, so we spent a lot of time
during that first year getting to know
each other. She seemed some sort of
genetic anomaly, a combination of every
positive quality a human being should
have: bright, hardworking, tall, and