Summary

In Chapter 18, Sotomayor’s friend Felice Shea found a letter Sotomayor had thrown in the trash. Sotomayor felt it was a scam until Felice explained that being invited to join Phi Beta Kappa was an honor not to be discarded. This wasn't the only time Sotomayor earned an award that she did not understand. She called on Felice to explain again when she earned the Moses Taylor Payne Honor Prize. Sotomayor graduated and prepared to make the move to Yale for law school.

She and Kevin married that summer. Sonia wanted a small wedding but Celina insisted on a large affair and Sonia accepted her mother's need for this event. Sonia was upset that some of Kevin's friends gave him illegal drugs as a gift and she forced him to throw them away.

In Chapter 19, Kevin was applying to medical schools but had...