It was tin, painted in shoddy gold. It was worthless, and yet it meant everything.
Ed
Trophy wife, they sneer. Pretty, but not enough brains. Selfish. But she got her grandma through cancer, sent her cousins to college, gave her sisters the security to marry who they wanted, and all it cost was her.
She held up her trophy and walked to the microphone. “I never thought I would receive this.” She looked towards her parents, her father stony faced and her mother wiping her eyes. “Girls don’t usually go to school, and usually don’t finish number one.”
It was tin, painted in shoddy gold. It was worthless, and yet it meant everything.
Trophy wife, they sneer. Pretty, but not enough brains. Selfish. But she got her grandma through cancer, sent her cousins to college, gave her sisters the security to marry who they wanted, and all it cost was her.
She held up her trophy and walked to the microphone. “I never thought I would receive this.” She looked towards her parents, her father stony faced and her mother wiping her eyes. “Girls don’t usually go to school, and usually don’t finish number one.”