“Finishing schools are for girls, but I did go to an elite boarding school that was founded by my mother’s family and for which she still sits on the board. The incident I told you about - the boy that locked me in the janitor’s closet and my… retribution…” He doesn’t call it his murder this time. “That’s the school I got expelled from for it. I don’t think my mother has ever had much hope that I could be ‘perfect’, even if it were an option. She’s at the point where she’ll take ‘alive’ and ‘reasonably functional’.” He shrugs and smiles a bit. “I’m not sure I could gave sat through etiquette class with a straight face anyway.”
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