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Academic failures – got any previous?

We carry around our academic failures like previous convictions.

If pressed, we might even blame something: but I’d never even been to France so it just didn’t make sense…

Whether or not the excuse is fair, we accept what the piece of paper tells us. I’m not very good at that. Sadly, what we really believe is this: I could never be good at that…

Bryan Mathers

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