16 Great Brains Think Alike

CHAPTER SIXTEEN GREAT BRAINS THINK ALIKE The next day after school, Franny found her mom slumped on the couch, exhausted. "Mom," she said. "We need to talk." "Wait, Franny," she said. "Let me go first.

"I'm afraid that all of the things we have to do are just too much sometimes. They're wearing me out, and I'll bet they're wearing you out, too." Franny nodded. "I think maybe we don't have to be excellent at everything. I think we need to pick a couple of things, and we should try to pick the things you really and truly enjoy. And maybe, sometimes, we could just do nothing."

Franny nodded again. She could hardly believe it, but she and her mom had come to the exact same conclusion. "Because," her mom said, "I'm afraid that sometimes when little Frannys get wound up too tight, they might self- destruct." Her mom had no idea just how right she was about that.

The two of them settled in on the couch and did nothing together for a while, and then some more nothing, and then a little more nothing after that.

They talked and laughed and it wasn't long before they both discovered that this was a kind of excellence that was totally worth striving for.

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