Kelly\u2019s father wants you to know all of it: She took classes at the University of Minnesota in 11th grade, notched a perfect score on the SAT, had enrolled last fall in the computational mathematics program at Stanford\u2019s graduate school. This was a young woman who had become convinced, like so many of her high-achieving peers, that pedaling to the peak of one mountain only meant a better view of the other, taller ones in the distance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe very characteristics that made you successful will be self-destructive,\u201d Mark says he has realized, though he prefers to keep himself busy than think too deeply about it, and indeed as much as his daughter was an outlier in life, she was part of a trend in death.<\/p>\n
… [he] kept absorbing his daughter\u2019s final words.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cry,\u201d Kelly wrote, \u201cbecause I only ever truly desired Love. Kindness. Understanding. Warmth. Touch. And these things shall be denied, for eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n A stunningly layered and moving story about the suicide of a US Olympian. @kentbabb<\/a> writes about Kelly Catlin. https:\/\/t.co\/cV1lejCYgM<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Chico Harlan (@chicoharlan) July 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n