[SarahW]

I think you are right. I think, in her mind, it was either find a way to get out of her school without dissapointing everyone who knew her, especially her parents,

or killing herself.


I've known top achievers that opted for suicide when they couldn't keep up their "image".

Remember that old poem, "Richard Corey"?

[SarahW]

Richard Cory
by Edward Arlington Robinson

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace;
In fine we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head