It had been lifted from her own Instagram account — her favorite picture from a trip to Lake Tahoe with her best friend. Compared with his sister, who had been both an academic and an athletic superstar in high school, Charles was kind of a slacker — smart enough to take advanced classes like A.P. “We’re going to figure this out,” she assured him when he finally choked out a description of the Instagram account. All things that were portrayed on the account do not actually portray my true feelings about people of color. The account had started at a chain restaurant called the Melt that was known for its grilled-cheese sandwiches.

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