The Nice Guy's Harvard Dream

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Senior year was the year my childhood best friend, Amy, fell for a jock.

He'd make her smoke in the bathroom, even slap her around in front of other girls.

And she ate it up, her grades plummeting faster than a lead balloon.

I was terrified this loser would ruin her future, so I kept telling her to ditch him.

She'd just roll her eyes and go back to making googly eyes with him. "I'd rather be used and abused by Jake than treated like a princess by a nice guy like you, Tom."

The night befo