Elizabeth Sinclair Essay

Elizabeth Sinclair was born to money, but money never owned her in the way it did her parents. Meredith, her mother, had old family money, dating back to the days of plantations and a time where horses weren’t an obsolete form of transportation. On the other hand, Edward was a self-made man. His family, like many other families in Maine, was a quiet, middle class family, with just enough money to put him through college. Of course, for a man like Edward, that was as much as he needed to get a masters in business, and become an asset to one of the most successful corporations on the east side of the states.

In contrast to the present, Elizabeth was soft-spoken and obedient as a child. From the time she started school, to the age of twelve, she was homeschooled. This, along with the fact that she was disinterested in sports and distant from her church group made her feel …show more content…
The girl she loved, the girl she trusted above than anyone else, had managed to spread the news like wildfire, in a way that even the faculty had a different sort of tone of voice when addressing her. It was enough to prompt a meeting with the counselor and her parents - which wasn’t the way she ever thought she’d come out. Fortunately, her parents weren’t too bothered after Lizzie’s brother talked them down from their initial reaction, and their only second thought was to pull Lizzie from the school to avoid harassment.

After “coming out,” Elizabeth completed her schooling online - and that was probably the biggest blessing in disguise of the whole fiasco. Through her time at home and spending so much of it online, she’d grown close friendships with people from across the world, people who genuinely supported her with an open mind; it was a closeness she didn’t expect possible from anyone but her