“If you never met him, how do you know this?”
“My parents have told me all about him. Every detail.”
A sudden dryness drove her to sip her Cosmo. Pete’s warm expression showed he understood. That made it worse. She’d become adept at holding it together when she talked about Bobby. But not tonight. The prick of tears behind her eyes made her take a long, calming breath.
“Surely that can’t be true. A parent loves every child.”
“I was a big disappointment. First, by being a girl, and second, by being me. They even had a boy’s name picked out. Joseph, which they changed when they found out I was going to be a girl.”
“That’s why Stanford and Harvard?” he asked.
She nodded. This is getting too personal, but I can’t stop talking. “I thought that by being the best, at the top, that things wo
