Reborn, I Refused to Give My College Spot to My Best Friend

During our years in the countryside, my best friend Harper Cobb was frail, so my childhood companion Cliff Walker insisted I give way to her in everything.

When the work credits she earned weren't enough to eat on, he told me to hand mine over to her.

When she didn't want to haul stones up the mountain, he told me to trade her the lighter work.

And in the end, when I was the one who got into college, Cliff still told me to give my spot to her.

"Isabel Henson, out of the three of us, Harper's the only one who didn't get into college.