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+t a Prank，/! I Ca( ?l#led It Good^bye

Ave_. ry +(Ross spent eighteen [
y\`__ear*s as Cal-
eb /-^Bennett's most+#,[ d,$ evote%#d friend — followin[!g h-!
im to th[e(= s ame schoo`@,ls, fixing h )is me\ sses, alway- _s th=,ere. At t\%heir freshman wel-]^com):e party,.)+ he repaid (;=her by pinning ,her (!down onstage w]hile. his new ?crus%h dumped */,a^- bucket of)
* red paint ov#e-
r `-_he$=r head. The whole = !ro=@o=m laug@^hed.]` Avery didn' !:=;t -, c/. ry. She filed \%,he
r wit@h_d!raw:al pa*pe@_rs t^ he next mor ning and ne! ver looke _d back. Armed wit!)-h noth:;ing but fury a; [nd ?]focus, she t ?,hrew herself int;!*o. \ a brutal gap year — and )+^alon^g the+_] wa].y, fo(=`und an un.expected + rival--:tur/ned-anchor in Lucas, a quiet g*
=eni#us chas=`ing MIT. As+ Avery
$rises f+rom humiliatio``n to a 1590 SA^ T s_cor(e and a Co,`l*^.umb%ia acceptance l% etter, C](@a ?leb spirals int  o expulsi^on_`, de;[bt\., and ruin+
. This i
*^\sn^!]'@@t, a \=[re.venge s [(t`ory.%, It's the @!story of a !g:irl :[who decided she was done be%
;ing t .he punch*line —` and becam.e the ^who[[@+le dam 
n headline.