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...opportunity is through Harvard, and she must clear her participation through the Ad Board. When Janie told her clinician at MHS about the grant, the response was discouraging...
...sort of weird because some people didn’t know I took time off; sometimes I would make something up or not tell them the whole story,” she said, speaking at a fast, energetic clip. “I once told someone that all my grandparents died...
...able to accept the Harvard grant, and she will have to continue working through the summer. Her new goal is to return in the fall, in time for swim season. After she realized her chances of accepting the grant were low, Janie called her Resident Dean. He told her to be patient—many of the members of the Ad Board are older, he said, and to them six months is not a very long time...
...story germinated out of old, semi-legendary family stories told me by my maternal grandfather about his childhood in northern Maine, which was impoverished. His father abandoned his family when my grandfather was 12 because he had epilepsy and his wife was going to have him admitted to an asylum. That was a formative family legend, but I could never get my grandfather to elaborate on it—I don’t know if it was painful or just generational to only talk about. Just being interested in my family made [these legends] irresistible to me. Just describing...
...actually causing the injuries they claim to prevent. “The fact of the matter is that we’re not telling anyone what to do,” he said. “Runners just have more options than they’ve been told...