Lisette Alvarez
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598 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2021
last heard Apr 2021
Lisette Alvarez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I always thought I could straddle that line forever.
But this, this was all there was.
This was life without magic.
And it was empty.
My sister had always been the vibrant one.
She was our parents' darling, the one with a future, the one with the world at her fingertips.
But her world was so empty.
It was sad and lifeless and gray.
And if I didn't do something, I would end up just like her.
It was now or never.
My parents had started to not-so-subtly hint about getting a job and not dying alone in some ditch after graduation.
Things at school weren't much better.
Seemed like no one could pass up a chance to remind me just how important it was to make something of myself.
And every time I set foot in class, it was the same.
Death by a thousand essay prompts.
Dear stupid college essay people, please, please find something somewhere inside of me as I pour my guts out into this 650 words or less essay that you like enough to let me enter your stupid special school.
I just couldn't.
All I could think of was my sister.
Was this what it was going to be like?
Day in, day out, waiting and begging, scrapping in the dirt for somebody, anybody to pick me out of a crowd just so I could fit in?
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