The Price of a Rumor: My Revenge on the College Queen Bee
Language: en
Just because the guy my college roommate had a crush on gave me a love letter, she spread rumors that I was a high-end escort and had gotten three abortions. The entire school believed it. Some pointed fingers, some isolated me, and others even blocked me at the classroom door, asking how much I charged for a night. I silently endured the humiliation and verbal abuse for four years. Twenty years later, I sat as the lead interviewer for a top-secret government agency. The candidate who had scored highest on the written exam walked in for her interview. I opened her background check file.…