by crow » 07/17/2021 6:36 PM
And not just college or anything either, but university -- and even that had been a compromise between what his parents had wanted and what he was capable of. His father would have liked Ivy League, and he sort of felt that his mother would have too, but at least she had realized, quietly, sometime in his middle school years, that he didn't have what it took for that level of competition. She must have been the one to break the news, just as slowly, to Henry's father.