“I am so proud of you and all you have achieved. I 21 your opinion from. The L. A. Times with my family and thought about you as my student at Hibbing High School.”
It was 22 Margarel Leibfried, — a teacher who helped me believe that I could become 23 .
Thirty years ago, in Hibbing, I 24 high school as a bookish introvert（内向）made all the more shy because I was the school’s only non—while student. I always felt 25 being swept away by a sea of golden hair schoolmates. By 10th grade, I’d developed strange behavior, hoping to 26 being laughed at as a “brain”. I spent a lot of time alone, reading and writing stories.
