“I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.”

Meaning

This reads as a picture of achievement quietly turning into possibility. The line points to the moment when academic effort begins to attract attention, and can be taken to mean that success is often cumulative, with opportunities arriving almost before one notices them. It lands in a scene where a young person starts seeing real options open up at home, on the kitchen table, in a very ordinary way.

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