 I've taught for 13 years in all these different places, but I've never met anybody as far behind in math as you. And again, I got that hot feeling in the back of my eyes and that lump in my throat, and I tried to swallow through it, and I zoned out, and I looked at the window, and I kept thinking about how I was that girl again. I was that stupid girl. But then I went every day after school, and I learned my times tables, and I learned my fractions.