“One person.” He brushed a crumb off his sweater.
“Did you picture yourself stuck in your hometown working in a shop? You know, when you were fourteen?”
“What did you picture yourself as?” “At fourteen? A swimmer.”
She’d been the fastest fourteen-year-old girl in the country at breaststroke and second-fastest at freestyle.
She remembered standing on a podium at the National Swimming Championships.
“So, what happened?” She gave the short version. “It was a lot of pressure.”
“Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.”
She didn’t correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon,
coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond.
According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.
She smoothed a stray strand of her coal-black hair up towards her ponytail. “What are you saying, Neil?”
“It’s never too late to pursue a dream.” “Pretty sure it’s too late to pursue that one.”
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