 She asked me to stay after school, and she sat down with me, and she said, Isabel, 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 again.