Lyra Meadow had to write an essay on perseverance:
Perseverance is a quality that I admire, though I find it difficult to use. In movies, people tend to say to never give up, even though I usually try again later. I am actually using perseverance now, because I am growing a callus writing a paragraph I don’t even want to write. I am wasting time I could be using reading, but I am still writing. I was not quitting. Thank you for reading this, but now my hand is too sore and my callus is too big. My perseverance must stop.
Snarky kid.
I recall turning in an almost identical essay once in my own mispent youth.
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Impressive. I didn’t develop that level of snarkiness and disregard for authority until I was in college. Lyra must have excellent role models.
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