“Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.”
— Marilyn vos Savant
I had read the quote a while back on a .gif that was tumbling around the Internet. One of those images people share to make themselves feel witty or warm and fuzzy.
According to the Guinness book of world records, Marilyn vos Savant has an IQ of one hundred and ninety, making her the smartest woman in the world. That’s the 99.999996 percentile. A rarity of one out of twenty-six million. I mean, with a last name like Savant, how are you not destined to be a genius?
Regardless of whether you revere these kinds of test with any kind of definitive merit, she was an outlier, and where I come from, outliers are special. For that reason, I contemplated her words, mostly wondering after all is said and done, if I would be able to confide my innermost secrets to my mother and my innermost fears to my father...
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O Hai! This prologue was written just for Wattpad... you won't find it in the published version ^_^
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