They pick the strongest seedlings early and train them under one rigid sun. We ate measured rice and boiled eggs, attended school like a tired formality, all for that single dream of a medal. They did not prepare us for the world outside those walls, only for the podium. I won gold at nationals, but I never learned to cycle with the other children in my street or taste the sour mangoes of a careless summer.
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