Gambling on Dreams

✌️2020 | 👋2021.

{heroImage && } --> Gambling on Dreams ✌️2020 | 👋2021. Published on Jan 1, 2021 A vibration ripples out from my phone. It’s a message from a classmate asking about my rooming plans for next semester with a not-so-subtle suggestion at a better option. I’m nearing the end of my first year in college, and having been successful at my quest to fit in, I’m tempted to change as little as possible to keep the good things going. The proposal to room with someone new (who I knew from the very intimate experience of recognizing their face across the dining hall every once in a while) was both an opport

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