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Aurelle wasn’t doing great in her college classes, but she was passing. She didn’t want to flunk out, to have to return to Toronto, and so she did what she needed to do to stay at RBU – her home. Sometimes Rachel helped her with school. She’d give her a hand with essay structure, making connections. Aurelle did love the course material – the cottage was littered with her books – but she sometimes struggled to get her thoughts out on paper. She was also terrible at typing, and so Rachel would sit at Aurelle’s desk and Aurelle would stretch out on her bed and they would pass a joint back and forth while Rachel clacked away, turning Aurelle’s rambling thoughts into thesis statements and arguments.
Rachel and Diana were able to recover after their bingeing nights in a way that Aurelle co
