Chapter 1618 Lost In A Wrong Turn:>30
- "She's got something about her, that's for sure. At seventeen years old, she told us all that she was gay. Normally you'd think that would shock the parents or that they would try and argue she was too young to know for sure what she wanted. Our parents didn't even blink. They'd given up trying to control or predict Jane, and were just happy for her in everything she did. Sixteen was the age she graduated high school. In college, she managed to overlap enough electives that she was able to get three undergraduate degrees in five years. And she took maximum hours every semester. She loved knowing things, and the more things the better." A shadow passed over his face, and Heather noticed.
- "What? What happened next?"
- "I don't know. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say academia got to her. When she got into graduate school, all her professors and contemporaries were telling her how smart she was, particularly for someone so young. I guess all those high-minded folks telling her how great she was finally convinced her. She was still a nice woman and I loved her, but she got a little snobby. It was like she believed her own hype. It didn't much help that she got two Master's degrees in three and a half years and her Doctorate in a year and a half. At twenty-six, she had more education than our entire family tree before her. But she didn't seem to love learning as much. It was more like she was obsessed; that she was competing with the entire world to see who was the smartest."