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ool newsletters. But they walk the same halls, sit in the sa

Brielle never bothered to remember-

decided her voice was "too loud" during debate practice. A few whispers later, Amira was

ll. It embarrassed the administration by exposing all the complaints they'd ignored. Brielle laughed about it at lunch. Th

o accurate-too unfiltered. It showed the way Brielle looked when no one was watching. The artwork vanished from the

't even appear in it. Just shared it. His scholarship review "coincidentally" came up a week

a school board meeting. The next week, she was accused of "academic dishonesty," ev

ublish an opinion piece about favoritism. It never named names, bu

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