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Linda Gracious Michaels. That was exactly who she was. Sometimes, she felt she was nothing more. Be the judge for this is her Story.


Life is one big Examination, its pen waiting and eager to tick our answers with the ultimate big red pen. We answer Life's questions, not always ready for its outcome. Sometimes, we study too hard and we make the little things our priority, just before another Examination comes.


Linda had always wanted to come first in Class. Her Father, being a Widower and an Ex-army officer would torment her soul to become first with all of those little exams.


At age 6, she was trained to remain first in line, her precedence and priorities crystal clear to always be the number one.


Indeed, she was trained mentally to never succumb to the little crumbs of Education and Learning. Growing up never gave her a warning that she had to fight ferociously to stay first in line, even when she didn't desperately want such things anymore.


It was normal to bribe teachers to pass. It was normal to know Someone that knows another to belong to the World of Someone. It was normal to sell a soul to become rich and known. It was normal to kill to become supreme beings.


That was an Examination Linda didn't have to study all-night for. In fact, she didn't have to study at all.


No one made it vivid to Linda that she had to fight a fellow female to become a Wife. Sometimes, she wasn't willing or ready to get into that Ring and fight, but she still got knocked-out, for reasons she would never understand.


Then came the time to starve, talk earnestly to a supreme being, while ignoring the scathing and impetuous comments of others, just to make another soul inside of you a reality.


For Linda, the Examinations never ended. Until its end, there would always be more questions to see and answers to tick.


In fact, more and more came, knocking on her door, like a thief ready for a moment of filch. She wasn't born or raised for these Examinations, but Life had made her the toughest person I've ever known.

Thank God this thread is titled THE EXAMINATION and not THE EXAM (a Hollywood movie) . It would have made a huge dent on the latter if this thread was named after the Hollywood movie......

mackhunter77:
Thank God this thread is titled THE EXAMINATION and not THE EXAM (a Hollywood movie) . It would have made a huge dent on the latter if this thread was named after the Hollywood movie......

Thank God Almighty I didn't make such error then. Thanks for reading and commenting.