Hellooo!! I'm Evie!

Like, Luke your father was a drug smuggler and so we don't talk about him. Your father was a drug runner and he crossed the line from Good Person to criminal and drug peddler and brought shame on our family. Luke, your father was a drug dealer and he was involved in shady things and it really hasn't been that long and people are probably after him to this day and we have to keep our heads down and stay safe. Luke, your father made it so that we have to pay the consequences of his actions. Made it so that you, Luke Skywalker, can't sing with the stars that call your name because of what he did whilst racing among them.

Luke, your father was a bad man who did bad things, but they were choices, and you can make different ones. You share his last name but you don't share his greed. Luke, addiction is genetic but your father wasn't a drug addict. He was a drug smuggler. He chose to became part of a system that exploits pain and fear, but his decision isn't running through your bones. Luke, you're kind and good and have reached nineteen, on a planet made to break things, whole and gentle.

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English class in high school, at least in my part of the world, is actually a literary course, not a language or grammar/spelling course. Your teacher might teach some grammer but it's more about being read a text and trying to understand what the author is trying to say or do with the piece. Important, but maybe not accurately named. At any rate, I learned grammar and spelling because I read a lot as a kid, not because I remember being taught.

But back to Latin!

University is the first time I can remember where anybody taught a new language by tearing down the language you're already familiar with. You need to be to recognize what role a word is playing in the sentence in order to accurately translate it. Fir example, there is a difference between the noun performing an action and the noun that is the recipient of the action. In English, this tends to matter more with verbs (as in we need to look at the subject doing the verb to know if we use "was" or "were") but in languages like Latin, the noun changes too. You need to understand what "case" each word is in because sometimes a singular noun has the same spelling as a plural noun.

So yeah, the breakdown of English to learn Latin was absolutely vital. Is it kind of embarrassing that I learned what an adverb actually is in university because I took Latin? Yes.