Everyone you left behind, everyone whose life you touched even peripherally, wishes desperately that we'd somehow found the magic to erase that pain so you could live.
Exquisitely dressed in the latest Parisian fashions, she notes how everyone she left behind has grown old – as if she herself might be immune from ageing.
In writing about Nadia's return, Bennett paints a picture of familiarity tinged with jealousy, and the conflicted emotions felt when everyone you have left behind has gone on with their lives without you.
Such examples aside, Ravitch said, "We're heading for a two-tiered public system, in which the best-motivated kids with the best-motivated parents are drawn off into the better charters, and everyone else is left behind in places that are increasingly underfunded, demoralized, and dysfunctional".
In the overall system, you end up reducing by a significant percentage the patient-hours of care, and everyone else who's left behind is suddenly working harder.
Everyone else just gets left behind".
A continuously trained workforce, coupled with a culture of entrepreneurship to invent and disseminate new technology, will cultivate a future where nobody is left behind and everyone feels confident and empowered toward a brighter future.
They grow on city roads and in schoolyards, on the surface of children's minds, in the hearts of people who've been left behind by everyone else.
